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TIIE SUNDAY O REG ONI AX, PORTLAND, AP"RTLi 24, 1910. EMPLOYERS SEEK NEW LIABILITY LAIN Better Protection for All Ob ject of Campaign Just i Started Here. (HAPPY MEDIUM IS WANTED Ilgures Produced at Association Conference Show That Under the Present Conditions Injured Workers Get Little. A movement having- as its object ths enactment of a law which shall con serve the interest of all parties inter ested between the employer and em ployes, was launched by the Ore Kn Employers' Association last nifrht. in its offices in the Commercial Club Building-. The tconference was largrely attended, there being present, a num ber of business men not members of the a&sociatlon. Several members of the Faciflc Coast United Metal Trades Association, In annual convention here, were also present. The plan la to. In some way. have a law enacted, which shall strike what was termed the "happy medium" be tween the present law and that pro posed by the State Federation of La bor, through invocation of the Initia tive and upon which there will be a vote In the Fall elections. "We realize." said M. C. Banfeld, president of the association, "that the PTesent law is Inadequate; that it does not protect tho employe,., probably, as it should, at lea.F-t that.be docs not re ceive what is rightfully his" in case of accident In proportion to what wo, as employers, pay the insurance com panies In premiums as protection. Proposed Law Unjust". "We also know that the law proposed under the initiative Is unjust. What we want to do is to see a law enacted which eha'l be fair anil equitable to employe as well as to employers. It is proposed that a low which shall he fair to all par ties concerned, shall be enacted- as a substitute for the one proposed by the labor organizations, and which shall also lo away with the inadequate features of the present statute giA-crning the liability of the employer in case of an accident to an employ.?." Euring the conference, a table of sta tistics on the subject was read. It showed that the employers last year paid in premiums to Insurance companies $169, 079.34. This money was paid with the un derstanding that the Insurance company was to guarantee the employer against loss from judgments secured by injured employes. Little Paid Back. It was also shown by the same table that the insurance company only paid back. Including money paid to the In jured men, court costs, agents' fees, at torneys' fees, ambulance and hospital bills and the like. $88,916.13, or about 50 per cent of the premiums paid. These statistics are authentic, having been fur nished by the state insurance department. It was estimated that of the 50 per cent at the premiums paid back, the injured employe only received about 16 per cent, the remainder being paid in attorneys' fees, court costs and so on. This brings the total amounts actually paid by em ployers to men injured while working for them to a small percentage of the total amount paid In premiums to the insurance companies. "This, we think, is a wrong system." said Mr. Ban Held, "and it Is to eradicate such evils that , we intend making this campaign." It was decided at the meeting to ap point a committee to work out the de tails of the measure and to decide upon a remedy to the situation. The member ship of the committee will be announced later. JAPANESE EVENING GIVEN Washington 3 Ugh School Girls' Chorus Kntertalns. "An Evening With Japaji," was the title of the second annual concert given last night In the auditorium of the Washing ton High School by the Girls' Chorus of ViO voices, inder the direction of Mrs. Rose Iteed-Hanscome. Miss Lorna Canons was the accompanist. The chorus was attired in Japanese costumes, seated under a canopy of Japanese lanterns. The opening number was "Happy Japan." Then followed "She Was a Maid of Ja pan." a dance; solo, "Japanese Doll," Madge J'armenler; song. with chorus, "Won't You Come to Tea?" Grace La follette; "Parasol Dancp,' solo. "Cherry Blossoms." Miriam Oberg; "chortts. "Ja panese Maids Are We," with incidental dance by Hallie Dalzell; . song , with chorus, "Chon Kina," Flora Orego; "Fan ,Tance;" solo "Laughing Little Almond IByes," Clara Wuest; solo, with chorus, "Jewel of Asia," Phlla McUuffee; duet, "Jappy, Jap, Jappy, the Sailor and the Geisha," Hazel Johnson and Irene Wentz. It was one of the most enjoyable con certs yet given at the Washington High School. There were no hitches and noth ing to mar the entertaiment and no de lay. Many flowers were sent up to the singers. BACHELORS NATIONALIZE Dayton Organization Plans to Broaden Its Scope. DATTOX. Wash.. April 23. (Special.) Abandoning their quest for wives in or der to look after Spring and Summer work on their farms, members of the Blue Mountatn Bachelors' Club, the or ganisation which has attracted attention from Coast to Coast In the last six months, have decided to hold no more meetings until after 'harvest. when steps will be taken to organize a National Bachelors' Club. Ralph Hut. the presi dent, said a constitution and by-laws and charter for the National club were prac tically completed. Several members of the club are now correpponling with women. More than 1000 letters from Inquiring fair ones have been received since the organization of the club last Fall. The National organi zation will be established on a fraternal and possibly an insurance basis. Letters have been received from bachelors living In every state of the Union, urging a Na tional, club. SANDERSON NAMED AGAIN Will Contest With Dunlap for May oralty of Klamath Falls. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. April 23. tSpeclal.) F. T. Sanderson, present in cumbent, was renominated for Mayor of Klamath Falls at the general nominat ing convention held today and Horace 8. Dunlap will be his opponent. For Police Judge, who also is City Recorder, A. L, Leavitt and H. M Manning were nominated, and for City Treasurer, J. W. Hlement was nom inated without opposition, having held that office for several successive terms. The candidates for Councllmen are; First Ward. Colonel M. G. Willklns; Second , Ward, Silas Olsenchain and Frank Ward are opponents; Third Ward, Marlon Hanks end Dr. W. A. Leonard: Fourth Ward, C. F. Stone, for two-year term, and W. E. Faught. for one-year term; Fifth Ward, . William Sargent- and A. Flnnell. for one-year terms, and Allen Stansbie and L. J. Rlnehart for two-year term. The election will take place May 2. County Clerk Delap today refused to sign the election notices to be posted up calling for a special vote of the county on the proposed Courthouse re moval, giving as his reason that his signature .would make the election ap pear as an official one. while it was understood the county should incur no expense from the straw vote which was to be taken April 0. HISTORIC HOUSE BURNS EXPKNSIVE PIA"0 AND OTHER VALUABLES CONSUMED. Patrolman Li Ills Risks Life to Re cover Cat and Kittens When Cabin Is. Destroyed. Fire consumed the cabin on the old Bennett homestead in Council Crest Park, at 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Furniture, a $1500 piano and other con tents of the house, owned by J. W. Reese, a land agent for the Southern Pa cific, were also cor.sumed. The loss is partly covered by insurance. Owing to the isolation of tho cabin nothing could be done to save It from destruction. Mrs. Reese and her daughter were alone when the fire broke out from a defective chimney. Patrolmen Lillls and Stanton, on duty on Council Cr"?, heard the women cry for assistance. Tho antiquated cabin was enveloped in flames when the. police arrived on the Peene a few moments later. At the risk of his own life. Lillis rushed into the building and saved the lives of a mother cat and her litter of new-born kittens. In less than half an hour, there was nothing on the site of the old 'landmark save a smouldering ruin. The old Bennett homestead, as it has been known to sightseers at Council Crest. wa acquired 2S years ago by Adam Bennett. The trat comprised two acres, a quarter of a mile east of the observatory. At the time of the old homesteader's" death, the property passed to his only two sons. Both have sub sequently died. In October, 1908.' W. S. Bridges, formerly of the Grman-Ameri-' can Bank purchased the tract from heirs, and since has retained its possession. The cabin was being occupied tempt), arily by Mr. Reese, pending tlve erection of a home on some adjoining property. He is absent from the city at present. The members of the Reese family were cared for by relatives last night. TANGLE TO GRAND JURY ABERDEEN'S CIVIC MUDDLE TO BE INVESTIGATED. Who Released Prisoner Apparently Baffles Authorities, and Affi davits Are Many. ABERDEEN. Wash., April 2.J. (Spe cial.) Still another turn was given the r.ow famous Skoldowski case, which has already caused the .dismissal of City Attorney Wade, when Prosecuting At torney Campbell today applied to Judge Sheeks1. of the Superior Court, for an order convening a grand jury. He apks that tile order be issued immediately after the trial of William Gobi, charged with the murder of Charles Hadberg and John Hoffman. It is said that Campbell himself Is going to investigate the facts in the release of Skoldowski in an effort to determine on just whose orders the man was freed. Skoldowpki falls under the Jurisdiction of the prosecutor and ho wants to kr.ow why it was that he was not Informed of the dismissal and the incidents that led up to it. Judge Bush, who first denied that Peter McGuira and Jack Houston canio to his house on the night Skoldowski was re leased, now says he recalls that part of the affair but is positive he did not telephone the order, as is asserted. He is now preparing an affidavit covering In detail his part in the evening's) inci dents. Chief of Police Dean still be lieves in the statement of Sergeant Trib betts that he' did not release the. prisoner until he received a telephone order from Judge Bush. There the case now rests, ponding official word from the Judge. DRUGGIST HELD GUILTLESS Sold Wood Alcohol Which Was Given to Boy Who Got Drunk. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., April 23. (Special.) C. H. Underwood, proprietor of Underwood's Pharmacy, hae been ac quitted of tho charge of violating the local option law, for selling of a pint of alcohol to Bid Yandell. who represented that he was a painter and wanted the alcohol to mix paints. Instead Yandell mixed the alcohol with water and dis posed of It to Lyon Robinson, a boy in his teens. Robinson became intoxicated and Yandell's arrest followed. The defense showed that Mr. Under wood sold the alcohol in good faith and that the arrest was due to the fact that Yandell was refused cocaine by a clerk in Mr. Underwood's store and upon in sisting that he be supplied with the drug was told to leave the place. Yandell then declared that he would "get the place." DEMPSEY RETURNED HERE Man Accused of Beating Bridge tender Is Captured. Detective Sergeants Day and Hyde re turned to the city last night from Spo kane with William Heron, alias Larry Dempsey. an ex-convict. In custody Dempsey. or the "Belfast Gun," "as he Is known to the police of the Pacific Coast Is accused of having beaten and robbed John Lovelace, the Madison-street bridge tender, on the night of April 9. Dempsey was arrested in Spokane in the early part of the week for drunkenness. Lovelace is still at St. Vincent's Hos pital and will.be confined in the institu tion for several weeks yet. He was ren dered Insensible ty his assailant, "who beat him several times over the head with an anvil hammr. Dempsey has a long police pedigree and was but recently released from San Quentin, where he served four years for highway robbery. LIMITED STOPPED TO SAVE WEZLEB Murdered Woman's Sons Want Vengeance Sus pect'Spirited to Jail. SCHULZ LAD IS ARRESTED Prosecuting Attorney Announces He Is In Possession of Enoneh Docu mentary Evidence- to Convict His Prisoner Quickly. TACOMA, April 23. Charles J. Wezler. accused of murdering Mrs. Frederick Schulz on a lonely country road at Gig Harbor, Monday, April 4. was brought to Tacoma at 8:35 o'clock tonight from San Francisco, where he was arrested by the police a week ago. Threats of vengeance uttered by sons of the murdered woman, coupled with public sentiment against Wezler, caused the offioers to stop the Shasta Limited on the outskirts of Tacoma. where an automobile was waiting to rush the prisoner to the County Jail. Albert Schulz. one of the victim's sons, was arrested at the riepot by a city detec tive shortly before the train pulled in, and a loaded revolver taken from one of htn coat pockets. The weapon was con fiscated by the police and the lad allowed to fro. "After consulting with officers, H. J. Doten and John Fitzgerald, who extra dited Wezler, Prosecuting Attorney J. L. McMurray announced , himself In pos session of documentary evidence suffi cient to convict Wezler of the crime, even without the strong chnin of circum stantial evidence which the officers h-?re have woven. Wezler is a physical wreck and was not examined tonight but taken straight way to a cell. Sheriff Morris, Chief of Police Duley and the Prosecuting At torney will examine him. Xo reporter was allowed to see him. PRIVATE GAIN NOT ISSUE Pcnton Defends Ship Subsidy From League Standpoint. WASHINGTON. April 23. The direct interest of members of the executive committee of the Merchant Marine League of the United States in legisla tion they urged was brought out at yesterday's hearing before the ship subsidy investigating committee. Secretary Penton of the league ad mitted that a large proportion of the committee and other officials were en gaged in production and transportation of Iron oro or steel, and would thereby be benefited by the additional protection of the large Increase in tonnage duties on vessels entering from certain countries. Mr. Penton said that view of the mat ter had not occurred to him before nor did he belic-v? the question of pecuuiary or direct interests of any kind had oc curred to any of the officials mentioned. Attorney Ralston wanted to know about the published reference in the American Flag, the league's organ, to representa tives of the loregn shipping "in and out of Congress." s "Who do you mean by 'in Congress?' demanded Air. Ralston. . "That applies to Representative Steener son," replied the witness. Penton declared the foreign Interests dominated the Merchants' Association of New York and that the league would prove agents have been In Washington working in the interest of foreign ship ping, meaning thereby the members of the Merchants" Association who had ap peared bt fore tha merchant marine com mittee of the House. Mr. Pnton said if Senator Burton had charged the merchant marine bill was "tainted," he had said what was untrue. WOMEN FINISH ELECTION Mrs. Sarah T. Kinney Is Honorary Vice-President of D. A. It. WASHINGTON, April 23. In the sec ond election made necessary to com plete the list of officers of the National Society of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution at their Ifith Continent al Congress here, Mrs. Sarah T. Kinney, of Connecticut, was chosen honorary vice-president, defeating- Mrs. Charles M. Deere, of Illinois, by 50 votes. The tenth vice-president general elected was Miss Anna Caroline Benninj;, of Georgia, who was given a plurality over "yjrs. Charles Russell Davis, of Minnesota, of VI votes. This completes the list of officers. UNIVERSITY HAS SCANDAL Congressional Committee to Probe Affairs at George Washington. WASHINGTON. Apli 1 23. As a result of sensational testimony before the House committee on the District of Columbia regarding the conduct of affairs of George Washington University of this city, there may be a Congressional in vestigation. Dr. Phillips, former dean of the medi cal school of the university, yesterday charged that the Corcoran endowment fund of $200,000, which ho designate! as a eacred trust, had been flagrantly mis used. NORTH COAST GETS LAND Walla Walla Expects New Road to Build Into City. WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 23. (Special.) Accepting the offer of Frank and Mottet Lowden to give the right of way through their premises on condition that a station be established there, the North Coast has practically announced its Intention of building a road into Walla Walla at once. 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