THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1021
department of public works, before
whom the hearing was held, that a
postponement would be necessary
until a later date as the department
had a hearing set for the city of Ta
coma today.
Little evidence was introduced at
the hearing- of the past two days be
yond that given at the meeting here
on April 11 and 12. Fibres on the
cost of transportation were brought
to date. The department probably is
now in the possession of sufficient
facts on which to make a ruling and
it is doubtful if a further hearing will
be held, unless demanded by the rail
ways. The roads contend that they cannot
earn expenses even with the increase
of 25 per cent, granted on June 26.
1920. while the loggers assert that the
Increase should be revoked.
LOSS OF
TO
Four Warehouses, Elevator
and Grain Destroyed.
New Job Believed Just What
Incumbent Makes It.
At the Lowest Prices
This season, in order to expedite the return to old
time prices, I purposely marked all my men's and
young men's suits at a very close margin.
But there has been no change in the long-established
ORIGIN LAID TO RAIL CREW
TIME AND CASH LIMITED
MOTHERS MAY I RATI
H. "W. Collins, One of Heavy Losers,
Imagination and Force of Ap
Orders Plans for Rebuilding to
Be Pushed to Completion.
pointee Expected to Enable
Him to Cut Down Expenses.
3IOVEMEXT . LOOMS TO RESCUE
SLAYER FROM DEATH.
WHEAT FIRE CAUSES
PERSOWALITY BIG AID
16510
GENERAL
DAWES
Good Clothes
PEXDLETCTN'. Or., June 29. (Spe
cial.) Fire early this morning de
stroyed four grain warehouses, an
elevator and many thousand bushels
of grain at Myrick station, six miles
northeast of Tendleton, causing dam
age estimated at from 16a,000 to
J20U.OO0 in wnat Is declared by local
grain men to be the most disastrous
grain warehouse fire Umatilla county
has ever suffered.
The elevator was the property of
the Myrick Klevator company, a farm
er co-operative organization. This
company lost one warehouse. Two
warehouses, one the largest of the
group, were lost by the Pacific Coast
Grain Elevator company of this city
and H. W. Collins of Tendleton lost
one warehouse.
Two Warehouse Saved.
The fire destroyed a number o
small buildings used as homes for
caretakers of the warehouses and sec
tion crew workmen. A warehouse
owned by the Myrick Elevator com
pany and one by H. W. Collins, lo
cated at extreme opposite ends of the
scene of the blaze, were saved. These
and the Northern Pacific railroad sta
tion are the only buildings left at
Myrick station.
The companies today were able only
to make rough estimates of total
losses and insurance carried. It is
said that all of the buildings were in
sured but that much of the grain was
not The elevator was insured for
$18,000. Some of the grain now.lying
smouldering heaps will be sal
vaged.
Plana to Rebuild Pushed.
Estimates show that H. W. Collins
suffered a building loss of $6900. Oth
er losses were: Grain belonging to
the company, about $12,000; grain In
storage belonging to farmers, about
$20,000; Myrick Elevator company
buildings, $27,500; grain. $40,000.
which may salvage $10,000. according
to estimates; Pacific Coast Elevator
company, buildings. $25,000; grain.
$20,000. Loss of equipment and other
grains stored in the warehouses will
raise the damage figures when final
estimates are made.
H. W. Collins will rebuild his ware
house and plans already are being
drawn for the building, which will be
pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible. The Pacific Coast Elevator
company plans to rebuild but no defi
nite plans have been drawn. Stock
holders of the Myrick Elevator com
pany will meet July 9 to determine
what action will be taken.
The cause of the fire is laid to the
failure of a section crew to extinguish
grass fire started during the day
along the roadbed.
RATE HEARING IS CALLED
Accused Men Abandon All Hope
Following Court Decision Af
firming Judgment.
SALEM. Or.. June 29. (Special.)
It was reported today that the Oregon
War Mothers, through the Salem or
ganization, will adopt resolutions at
a meeting to be held here within the
next few days urging Governor
Olcott to commute the death sentence
Imposed upon Jack Rathie, slayer of
Sheriff Til Taylor, to life imprison
ment. Rathie and James Owens are now
in the penitentiary awaiting execu
tion. They originally were convicted
of the crime in Umatilla county, but
after reaching the prison appealed
their cases to the supreme court for
final determination. The supreme
court yesterday handed down a deci
sion in which the verdict of the lower
court was affirmed. Before the ac
cused men can be put to death they
must be taken to Pendleton and re
sentenced. Rathie, according to records in the
hands of the war mothers, served
with the American expeditionary
forces in France during the late
struggle against Germany. He was
said to have been rewarded for his
bravery while in action.
CENSORSHIP BOARD NAMED
Trio Charged With Regulating
Dances at McMlnnville.
McMIXXVILLE, Or., June 29. (Spe
cial.) Complete returns in the city
election here on the prohibition of
public dances or their strict regula
tion showed a 2-to-l majority in fa
vor of the regulated amusements as
provided for in the charter amend
ment. This amendment provided for
a commission to be appointed by the
mayor to act as a censorship board
for all forms of amusements.
Mavor Houck has appointed the
board, naming Walter Tooze Jr.,
George E. Martin and Mrs. E. f. Tib-betts.
Since the election the city council
has witnessed several changes. E. L.
Ballard, one of the councilmen in fa
for of eliminating the dances, moved
from his ward and was automatically
dropped from the council. Two of
his colleagues. T. A. Hansard and J.
C. Gilbert, have resigned.: ; Dr. W. G.
Hoffman was recently elected In Mr.
Ballard's place and the other vacan
cies will be filled In the near future.
Fred A. Williams to Attend San
Francisco Conference.
SALEM. Or., June 29. (Special.)
Fred Williams, chairman of the Ore
gon public service commission, will
go to San Francisco July 13, where
he will attend a conference of the
interstate commerce commission, with
relation to an adjustment of freigh
rates on the v eed-Klamath Falls
branch of the Southern Pacific rail
road. Members of the California pub
lic service commission will attend the
hearing.
Shippers of the Klamath Falls sec
tion charged that present freight
rates were unreasonable, and practi
cally eliminated their products from
competition in the eastern markets.
RATE TARIFF SUSPENDED
Public Service Commission Plans
to Make Investigation.
SALEM. Or., June 29. (Special.)
me uregon public service commission
today suspended the tariff of the En
terprise Electric company, setting
out an increase in electrical rates ap
plying to service in Enterprise. Jo
seph. Lostine, Wallowa and Evans.
The tariff was to have become ef
fective July 1.
in suspending ine tarur tne com
mission notified the electric company
mat it naa Deen aecided to inves
tigate the proposed new rates, and
that the schedule, if finally allowed
would not go into effect until Oc
tober 1.
FORGERY SUSPECT HELD
Edwin T. entz Is Bound Over o
Await Grand Jury Action.
Jiawui T. Wentz. alias Bert Wi-
lorp, was held by Municipal Judge
Rossman to answer to the grand jury
un inikc oi iorgery on comma nt
of C. Corber, 410 Washington street,
yesterday. His bail was placed at
$1000. Wentx was said to have
passed a bad check for $11.50 on Mr.
Corber.
According to Patrolman Welch.
who arrested Wentz in the Lambs
club, he was sent up from Multnomah
county for from one to five years on
March 18, 1918. on a charge of ob
taining money under false pretenses.
STATE CONTRACT IS LET
Corvallis Firm to Install Heating
Plant, at Roseburg.
SALEM, Or.. June 29. (Special.)
ine state board or control, at a meet
ing held here today, awarded the
contract for installing a central heat
ing plant at the old soldiers' home a:
Tvofieburg to Yundt & Keyser of Cor
vallis. The proposal was In the sum
of $214.49. There were eight bids
submitted.
Under the provisions of the con
tract work on the plant will be started
at once in order that it may be com
pleted before fall.
WORK ON JWAD PUSHED
Effort Made to Open Astoria-Sea
side Highway July 1.
ASTORIA. Or., June 29. (Special.)
Not less than 3000 automobiles are
expected to come over the highway
to Astoria and Seaside, between July
1 and 4, and every possible effort is
being made to have the road open to
traffic. A. J. Olson, engineer in
charge of improvements in this dis
trict, this morning, brought 12 truck
loads of material from the paving
plant at Seaside and has a force of
men repairing the .broken spots In
the pavement between Astoria and
the John Day river bridge. The new
bridge across Youngs river will be
hrown open for travel Saturday.
ine paving oi tne seaa.ae roaa
will be suspended at noon Saturday,
and as .Monday will be a holiday
paving operations probably will not
be resumed before Tuesday.
FOREST FIRE LOSS LIGHT
Only Seven Fires Are Reported to
Forester This Season.
SALEM, Or., June 29. (Special.)
Only seven forest fires have been
reported to the state forester so far
this season, according to a record
prepared by his department today.
One of these fires occurred during
the month of May, while six of the
fires were reported in June.
The fires burned over approx
mately 100 acres without any mon
etary lose to timber. ' During the
month of June 90 permits for burning
slashings were issued by the state
forester., aggregating approximately
1700 acres.
BY MARK SULLIVAX.
fCnvrie-ht bv the New York Bvenlni
Post. Published by Arransi-ment.)
wakhivoton. D. C. Juna 29.
(Special.) If General Dawes could be
murio a iiermanent official of the
lTnttoH statin if hn could be made as
istant nresident. so to speak, or If
he could iTpntfi the office of general
manager of the United States and give
it to Dawes, or if he could reorganize
the government along the lines that
some cities have done and give Gen
eral Dawes a job analogous to that
which has come to be known in many
parts of the country as "city maun
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ager." II any ot tnese ininu tuuiu
I.e. hrounht about, and II oenerai
Dawes could be kent on the Job per
manently, there is no doubt that the
United States would be better man
aired in a business way.
General Dawes has imagination ana
force. Those of us who have followed
rather closelv the way he has te
gun his present task observe that he
understands both public psychology
and individual psychology, and knows
how to make both serve his purpose
There will be more of this before
General Dawes is through, and the
public will become familiar with him
as an able nerson with a racy and
attractive personality.
Money Declared Ample.
Of course all that General Dawes
can do is to lay the machinery ana
set it in motion. To do this he has
five months of time and $250,000 in
money. The money is ample, for Gen
eral Dawes' methods do not depend
much on money. He makes his per
sonality serve as substitute for funds.
But the five months of time is rather
short, and when it ends it will be
wished that General Dawes might be
drafted for a longer period.
Entirely aside from General Dawes'
personality, a good deal . has ; been
started In the way of fundamental
reorganization,, which will remain.
The old-method of making appropria
tions is gone forever. By that old
method, broadly described, the head
of a bureau made a rule-of-thumb
guess as to how much money he
would need for the coming year. His
whole motive, of course, was to make
his estimate as large as possible. Then
a committee of congress made a rule-of-thumb
reduction in the estimate.
Method la I nucirntlflc.
There was nothing scientific or
businesslike method in either end of
the process. The most concerned did
not take it seriously. In some cases
the reduction made by congress were
ignored by the bureau chiefs. They
went aHead and spent as much money
as they tnought they ought to have
and then called on congress for a
definite appropriation. There was no
one man in the government who had
the responsibility which some one
man in every private corporation has
for making ends meet and avoiding
bankruptcy.
In the new system we shall not
have quite what exists in private cor
porations, but we shall have one
man who at least will have the power
and duty of critical supervision of
estimates made by the various de
partments. His power will fall far
short of what many cities have
given to one man under the title
of city manager.
J. R. .McCarl Gets Job.
Nevertheless the new job will be
largely what its occupant makes it.
The appointee to th's new office,
known as controller-general, will be
J. R. McCarl of Nebraska. If he
should turn out to have as much
imagination and energy as General
Dawes, he can, with the sympathy
and support that he will undoubtedly
nave from President Harding, make
his new office as potent as 11 is
hoped to be.
standard of quality which I insist upon in the clothes
that I sell; thus the purchaser is doubly protected
in the PRICE he pays and in the QUALITY he
receives!
You will find here ' some of . the best . clothes that
American manufacturers produce, and at prices
lower than the prices ordinarily asked for quality
so good! ,. . . ' - .
Stocks of midsummer and vacation suits are now at
their best at my store. Men and young men are
invited to see them. -
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LEADING CLOTHIER,
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ABERDEEN' MEX AXD WOMEX
ORGANIZE LEAGUES. '
Police Chief, In Summary, Declares
Bootleggers on Juries Make
Convictfons Impossible.
Santiam Power Proposed.
SALEM, Or., June 29. (Special.)
H. M. Gardner of Stayton, has filed
with the state engineer application to
appropriate 1200 second feet of water
from the North Santiam river, for
power purposes. The development
will be prosecuted on a commercial
basis, according to the petition. Cost
of the proposed development was not
given in the application.
LOG RATE CASE ADJOURNED
AVashington Department Gets Data
as Basis for Ruling.
OLTMPIA. Wash., June 29. (Spe
cial.) After two days of discussion
over the question of equitable log
rates from the point of origin to the
mills, representatives cf the four big
transcontinental roads that touch the
northwest were told yesterday by the
$10,300 School Ordered.
EUGENE, Or., June 29. (Special.)
A contract has been awarded by
the school board at Lorane, a village
18 miles southwest of Eugene, for the
erection of a high school building to
cost 10.300. w. is. ititcney oi Se
attle was the successful bidder. The
members of the board announce that
he structure will be modern in every
detail.
Kelso Gets New Fire Siren.
KELSO. Wash., June 29 (Special.)
A new electric f're siren will be in
stalled on the Ely building at once in
place of the one received about a
month ago. The first siren installed
did not have sufficient power to
awaken the city and one of double the
size was ordered.
RELICS FOUND IN LAVA
Klamath Specimens Thought Used
by Prehistoric Race.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., June 29.
(special.) A. C. laden returned to
day from a three-day trip to the lava
Dede, bringing a number of acheologl
cal specimens. It, is thought the ar
ticles have been .made in prehistoric
.times by a race who inhabited this
section, but whose identity is lost, no
burial place or traces other than
relics remaining. The curios are dis
tinctly Indian, but the tribal identity
is foreign to the well-known Indian
who inhabited thta section.
Mr. Yaden collected many of his
relics between the stronghold of Cap
tain Jack and the lake shore, and the
list includes some very peculiar fire
sticks, arrowheads, cutting knives,
eewing awls and other like equipment
commonly used by the prehistoric
race.
Injuries From Truck Fatal.
MOUNT ANGEL, Or., June 29.
(Special.) George W. McLain, who
has been working on the county rock
crushing crew, while . riding from
work last evening jumped off the
moving truck, accidentally stumbled
and the rear wheel of the truck
passed over his left leg and part of
his body, injuring him internally. He
died while on the way to the hospital.
ABERDEEN, Wash., June 29.
(Special.) Liquor has been sold over
one bar in Aberdeen almost continu
ously since the state went dry. Chief
George Dean declared yesterday In a
summary of vice conditions in Aberdeen.
"Out of 24 charges, where conviction
carries prison- sentences, only one
conviction has been obtained, and the
case is still on appeal, with the sen
tence unserved," said the review.
"One convicted jointist sat on juries
in the last term of court at Monte
sano and three other known bootleg
gers also were jurors during the term.
"There has been no public support
of the police department, and without
such support a cleanup Is remote.
"Juries will not convict in bootleg
ging cases, and until they do convict,
where convictions ought to be had.
suppression of vice is next to impos
sible." Chief Dean and the police depart
ment hope the crusade, which has just
started, will arouse public sentiment
to support law enforcement. Sixty
five women Monday organized a
Woman's Law and Order league and
appointed committees to draft a con
stitution and by-laws. The men held
a similar meeting last night.
the amounts actually paid for gas
under the new schedule.
In another order the commission
suspended until October 1 the tariff
of the Pacific Power & Light company
as it affects fares on the "Astoria
street railway system. Under the lat
ter tariff it was proposed to increase
the fares from 5 to 7 cents and pro
portionate advances In the cost of
books good for 40 single rides. This
tariff was to have become effective
July 1.
STOLEN AUTO ABANDONED
Car While In Eugene.
EUGENE, Or., June 29. (Special.)
An automobile stolen at Medford
Monday and thought to have been
taken by the men who robbed safes
at Treka. Cal., and Klamath Falls
was abandoned here early this morn
ing. Another car was stolen and the
thieves supposedly left for the north.
After midnight this morning C. P.
Devereaux. an insurance agent, sur
prised a man stealing gasoline from
his car which had been left in the
street. The man ran and abandoned
the car he had been driving. The
license plates bore the same numbers
as the one stolen in Medford.
night by Major John H. Hood of the
regular army, who declared that the
personnel and discipline of the com
pany were satisfactory.
RDAY
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Tvmi for All
Ford Modls
fate
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KtON TUC1
CUT IN GAS ORDERED
Commission to
Charged
Investigate Rates
in Astoria.
SALEM. Or., June 29. (Special.)
The Oregon public service commission
in an order issued here tonight agreed
to allow the new tariff filed by the
Pacific Power & Light company of
Astoria to become effective July 1
providing that the proposed gas rate
be reduced from J1.2o a thousand to
fl a thousand feet.
The order further provides that the
commission intends to start an inves
tigation, and if other rates included in
the new tariff are found to be unrea
sonable, the corporation will be com
pelled to return to its patrons the
difference between the charges fin
ally adopted by the commission and
Guardsmen Plan Dance.
ABERDEEN, Wash., June 29.
(Special.) The third of the series of
Aberdeen Artillery club dances will be
given In the armory at the Knights
of Pythias hall July 13, just three
days before the guardsmen entrain
for their two-weeks encampment at
Fort Worden. Two hundred and
fifty invitations will be sent out. In
spection of the guard was made last
Widen the service range of the
truck. Permit more tonnage
with greater speed. Hold the
load firm. Protect against spring
breakage. Greater riding com
fort. Increase truck profits.
DUtritatorm
Ballou & Wright
Broadway at Oak.
Portland, Or.
ECEPTION
Vancouver Physician X'amed.
OLTMPIA. Wash., June 29. Gover
nor Hart today appointed Dr. Joseph
Roane of Vancouver, Wash., to serve
on the state examining board of the
drugless physicians.
The Lang Range
HEATS THE WATER
with gas, same as wood or
coal, while cooking or baking.
F. S. LANG MFG. CO, 191 4th
JIMMY-DUNN'S
Wise Old Cat
Says
In our upstairs store we sell by volume
that is, we sell three suits of clothes on a
short profit, instead of one on a.long
profit. The boss says this plan avoids the
so-called "Clearance Sale."
Bf i ! nawJu i.wi)imiiw.
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Ends It!
On Saturday evening, July 2,
this store closes its career. These
remaining 3 days offer to the
women of Portland the greatest
opportunity of the year for Real
Shoe Values. Don't miss it!
C W. SHIVERY
CLOSING OUT
Tieburg Bros.
Parle and Morrison StsT
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