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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1916)
J 13 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX PORTLAND, DECE3IBER 3, 191G. COMMONWEALTH TO BE DISCUSSED HERE Annual Conference Under Aus pices of University to Be Held January 3-5. MANY PROBLEMS LISTED Several Papers on Roads Included in Programme State, City and County Matters Also to Be Topic for Discussion. Portland instead of Eugene will be the meeting" place of the next annual commonwealth conference held under the auspices of the University of Ore gon and directed by F. G. Young, pro fessor of economics and sociology. The date will be January 3-5. "It has been transferred to Portland because state affairs are considered and because it eeems expedient to have state meetings where the greatest num ber of interested persons can attend them," said Professor Young. A road conference is on the com monwealth programme. Speakers of authority, some of them from other states, are being listed. Fapera Are Announced. Professor Young has outlined the following papers: "Planning a System of Highways for the People of the State." "Economy in the Use of Scientific Methods of High way Improvement and Maintenance," "Highway System as an Investment." "How Can Greatest Efficiency in Highway Improvement Be Insured Through Fullest Use of Principles of Business Organization and Art of Highway Engineering in Oregon?" "The Principles of Economic Invest ment," illustrated through tentative apportionment of state and National aid road funds on a road map of Ore pon; "Organization Essential to Secure Concentration of Control and Re sponsibility for Economic and Effi cient Administration of Highway Im provement," "Procedure to Insure the Selection of Most Economic Materials and Methods in State. Cout y and Dis trict Construction and Maintenance," "The Accounting System and Staff Or ganization Essential to Insure Best Economy and Efficiency in Highway Improvement" and "Outline of a High way Code for Oregon Embodying the Approved Features." Problems Declared Numerous. "If advance is to be made all along the line In Oregon there are several groups of specific problems that come up for solution," said Professor Young. "We have problems of organization, both legislative and administrative, in state, counties, cities and school dis tricts. For example, under legislative problems would come such items as ex pert bill drafting: under administrative problems, such' items as scientific budgetary procedure and revision of Judicial procedure. "Another group is publio service Im provement. Under this head would be, for Instance, the short ballot system for elective officials, and the civil service merit system for permanent ap pointive officials. Public Coat la Problem. "Reduction of cost on public work Is a third group. Conservation of re sources and of human life is a fourth. Methods of co-operation with the Fed eral Government is a fifth. "The order In which attention to these problems should be emphasized, as determined by keenness of public interest in them and by their relative timeliness, seems to be as follows: (1) roads; (2) drainage, irrigation and power; (3) co-operation with National Government; (4) unemployment; (6) city planning; (6) Legislature reform." A list of the commonwealth speakers Will be announced later. PROMINENT WOMEN WHO WILL SPEAK AT THE Y. W. C. A. WINTER CONFERENCE. f . - ' - a t jt - ' j; " " . 'A l n l , ' ' - f V " i A' ' ' . V ' K' ' - v h II - - ' ' : v. ' - v. 3 l . J- "." , ' g - - li - - J- ' I - - ' , I $ - , ' - - - v . M I - v ' ; . x t I: :;f .:; : BLACK HAND IS USED! Threats Made Against Investi gators of Alleged Fraud. SIX FIREMEN ARE ACCUSED A "Winter conference will be one of the interesting activities for this month for the Young Women's Christian Association. It is set for December 13-17. Miss Anna V. Rice will be one of the speakers. Miss Jane Scott and Miss Urace Maxwell, or Seattle, who were n ere last Winter, will be welcomed as speakers. Dr. Joshua Stansfield, pastor of the First Methodist Church of this city, will give an address. The afternoon sessions will be for women and the evening sessions for girls. NEW COURSE ARRANGED ACRICULTIBAL COLLEGE WILL TEACH APPLE PACKI.VG. Instruction Will Be Given at CorvallU to New Growers From January 8 to February 2. GAMP 15.000 VISIT Eagle Creek Grounds in Oregon Forest Attract Many. SITES HANDY FOR AUTOISTS OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallls. Or., Dec. 2. (Special.) A course in apple packing for the es pecial benefit of growers whose or chards are just coming into bearing will be one of the features of the Win ter short course to be held here from January 8 to February 2. Commercial quantities of apples will be produced for the first time next year in many fruit districts of the state. The status of the apple market for these localities In the future will be largely determined by the excellence of the pack sent out next season. In the new fruitgrowing sections of the Willamette and Umpqua valleys there are very few men who are fa milar with the technique of apple packing. No relief from the older ap ple districts can be expected as these localities are turning out increasing crops and will require all the local ex pert labor available. In an effort to supply thl3 deficiency, the course In apple grading, handling and packing will be given. The col lege is equipping a modern type of warehouse with apple grading ma chines, conveyors and gravity carriers, and will put the students through every step of the actual work of preparing the fruit for market. "Every inexperienced fruitgrower ought to be here for hie own sake and for the sake of the apple industry in Oregon, said Professor C. I. Lewis, chief of the division of horticulture. Captain PauU'tt'eyrauch. of Walla Walla, president of the Northwest Fruitgrowers' Agency. Inc., will have supervision of the Instruction in apple packing. The course will be given in the second and third weeks of the Win ter short course. Conveniences of Outdoor Life Are at Disposal of Travelers lTplk From Foreign Lands Are In cluded Among Guests. The Eagle Creek camp grounds on the Oregon National forest attracted 15.00Q visitors from 30 states and a dozen foreign countries during the out ing season of 1916. according to T. H. Sherrard, supervisor of the Oregon National forest. This is the first sea son these camp grounds have been easily accessible to the public. The grounds have been developed under a carefully devised plan of the Forest Service to make them both at tractive and convenient to campers and visitors. Nearly 100 camp sites with safe fireplaces and other conveniences have been prepared. Excellent water has been piped to the grounds and a sewer system in stalled. A public comfort station is centrally located. A short loop road from the Columbia Highway makes it possible for automobile parties to drive directly to a camp siU, making the pack run: of equipment and supplies un necessary. A forest officer assisted visitors in finding satisfactory camp sites and parking places for their machines. Among the 15,000 visitors at these campgrounds were parties from Alas ka, Canada. China." England. France, Germany, Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland and Switzerland, besides 30 of the states of the Union. A topographic survey of the grounds has been made and a large number of new camp sites on the west side of Eagle Creek are planned. An automo bile bridge across the creek will make the new camp sites more accessible. The trail up Eagle Creek has been completed for four and a half miles to a bridge site a mile and a half above the Punch Bowl. Here a bridge will be built 50 feet long and 125 feet above the creek. It is expected to complete this trail to Wahtum Lake next season. The Forest Service Is planning to develop several suitable sites on the National forests of Oregon and Wash ington In 1917. A campground near Rockdale, on the Snoqualmle forest, will undergo the most extensive devel opment next year. Ml HIT BY STREETCAR KELSOS SUSTAINS ors INJURIES. NUMEIl- Vlctlm Struck When Rnnnlns Before Outbound Mount Scott Car to Catch Train Bound for City. A. N. Nelson, of 5809 Forty-second avenue Southeast, was struck, dragged and seriously injured by an outbound Mount Scott car yesterday as he sig naled to an inbound car at Myrtle station. He was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital by the Ambulance Service Company. His Injuries include a prob aoie iracture or tne skull, severa broken ribs, a compound fracture o the left ankle, broken collarbone, and bruises. Despite his Injuries he did not lose consciousness. Witnesses say that, as he signaled to nls car. he failed to notice the one ap proaching in the opposite direction. The raotorraan did not have time to cheel; its progress and Mr. Nelson was knocked down. A witness of the accident, who wa riding at the front of the car which struck Mr. Nelson, said the motorman was continually sounding his whistle, but that Mr. Nelson, his eyes fixed on the other car, dashed onto the tracks when the car was but five or six feet away. It was not traveling at a greater speed than 10 miles an hour. Mr. Nelson was not picked up by the fender for the reason that the tracks at that point are not paved. Patrolman A. F. Gustafson. of the Police Bureau, is a son-in-law of Mr. Nelson. Business Men Who Purchased Worthless Mortgages Ar Declared to Have Had Knowledge That Conditions Were Faulty. Mysterious black-hand threats have played a part In the investigation now being made by the Board of Fire Chiefs or charges that six members of the fire bureau have been involved in a ia.na. iraua scneme. These threats are being investigated along with the charges. D. D. Hall, attorney representing business men who were stuns in the land scheme, has reported that a few days ago he received a telephone call from a man who said if he pushed tne case he would get a knife through his heart. Mr. Hail tried to trace the telephone call, but was unable. Fire Chief Dowell also has hea.d reports that certain of the business men in volved have been threatened by tele phone or letter. Investigation of the land fraud charges is being conducted as fast as possible by the Board of Fire Chiefs. bo far the probing has been In lim of getting the stories of the business men who were stung. Only one or two of the six accu&ed firemen have been called .before the board so far. It appears that the principal reason the business men were stung was in an endeavor to beat the old "get-some thing-for-nothlng game." It has been shown that a man named Snearly bought some worthless swamp land near Medford and divided it into lots. He then paid firemen for accepting deeds to the lots and giving him mort gages which bore provisions that the mortgages should be paid off at the rate of $20 a month. Snearly, it is said, took these mort gages to the business men, and after telling a hard-luck story, offered to sell them at a mere fraction of their face velue. It is said some of the mortgages for $500 or more were sold for less than $100. There also has been some indirect evidence that some of the purchasers of the mortgages realized that it was a proposition not altogether right, but they purchased, believing they would be able to stick the firemen for the full amount. The firemen apparently allowed the use or their names in the Transaction for so much per name. It is said they received money from Snearly for signing the mortgages and for telling the business men who were offered the mortgages that they were regular and would be paid off at the rate or ; a month. SILVER SALMON RUNNIPJG Grays Harbor Supply Comes Late to Benefit Canneries. Too HOQUIAM, Wash.. Dee. 2. (Special) The silver salmon run is on in full swing In Grays Harbor and the tribu tary streams, but the fishing season is over and the canneries are not profit lng by the large number of excep tionally large fish running. The run which should have come in between the middle of October and the first of November, developed only two days be fore the fishing season closed, the night of November ?0. and the greater Dart of the fishermen were not ben efited because they had laid up their boats and stowed their gear, believing thA run would not come. Silver salmon annually appear in the ncran off the entrance to Grays Htr bor In the early part of October, but do not enter the harbor In any great num bers until after the first freshets, which usually come near the mmaie or vjcio ber. TWO LAOS EXTERTAIXED WITH BIRTHDAY PARTIES. AVIATION PRIVILEGE ASKED Five Members of Aberdeen Navnl Militia Want Training. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Dec. 2. (Spe cial.) Five members of the fourth di vision Naval Militia, of this city, have made application to the Navy Depart ment for the privilege of attending the aviation school conducted by the Fed eral Government at Pensacola and ex- Beet that they will get s chance to take a three months course there some time during the coming year. The Navy Department has adopted a new policy of allowing four officers and 16 men from each state Naval Militia to- enter thisschoal for ,three -months' training,. Trra Aberdeen men are the first Jn the state to apply for permission to attend this school. -I si . ' -Kf W x ' A tv v 1 --.'--.':-v If J V a - v BRAZIL BIDS FOR SHIPS Negotiations Under Way. for Buying Interned German Vessels. RIO JANEIRO. Brazil. Dec. 2. Nego tiatlons have been begun by the Bra zilian government for the acquisition of the German merchant vessels In Brazilian ports, it was brought out in debate in the Chamber of Deputies today. Thirty-eight German and four Aus trian merchant vessels are In Brazilian ports, their estimated value being be tween $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. BIG CONCERN STARTS LOGS Wynooche Timber Company Hauling to Tidewater Haftlng Grounds. HOQUIAM. Wash.. Dec. 2. (Special. The Wynooche Timber Company, of this city, after practically nine month devoted to the construction of its camp and railway line, began hauling logs todav from its timber in the Wynooch to its tidewater rafting grounds. When in full operation this will be one the largest logging concerns in Grays Harbor County, employing at least 300 men The company already has seven mnes of railway built from freachers fcloug to its timber, and construction work s being- steadily carried on to extend the main line and branches farthe back into the timber. The compan has several hundred million feet of tim ber to cut in the present project. Rural Schools Consolidate. OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL. Mon mouth, Dec. 2. (Special.) Consolida tion of rural schools In Oregon is being accomplished this year with more suc cess than ever, according to M. S. Pitt man, rural instructor in the Oreron Normal, who has spent much time this year in the rural field, delivering lec tures, aiding teachers and studying all kinds of rural problems. It is shown In nearly every instance objections arose at the start, but died down when tne social Denents of the plan com Imenced. Good roads were a factor In many of the consolidations. Aronson's Great Unloading Has Brought the Christmas Spirit to Portland How it warms the heart to see the crowds flow in and out through Aronson's doors! And what mysterious -looking packages are being tied up at the wrap ping counter all the day long ! And down in Aronson's basement and upon the bal cony floor what great pyramids are being built, silver upon silver, gold upon gold. But Aronson is the Sphinx ! I'd explode if I had to carry around the secrets Aronson carries. Just to think that Aronson knows what nearly everybody in Port land is going to get in their stockings (or sox) on Christmas ! But Aronson's too busy to tell, even if he would and he won't. And Rueff, the big diamond expert! Why, Rueff ought to be losing more weight than a Chicago diet squad, the way he has to hustle at the diamond counters. A man came in the other day just as Rueff was trying to get away for lunch. Looked at a diamond ring, and then said he wanted to look around. Back in an hour and bought the ring, but Rueff hadn't been able to make his escape. Indulge yourself in cogitations and reasonings, as Red Saunders would say, and youH discover why the diamond cases never lack for customers: $150 diamond rings for $108.50. $125 diamond rings for $89.55. $100 diamond rings for $69.75. $75 diamond rings for $52.50. a $500 solitaire diamond ring for $374.50. a $650 platinum mounted diamond lavallicre for $474.50. a $400 platinum mounted diamond lavalliere for $296.50. a $75 platinum mounted diamond lavalliere for $56.50 a $125 horseshoe diamond pin for $87.50. a $500 diamond mounted bracelet for $363.50. a $50 diamond mounted bracelet for $36.50. RUEFF ILLUMES CHICAGO The preceding paragraph was written at 3:05 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Just then my phone rang and Rueff 's big voice boomed into my ear: "Just sold a representative of I. Newman & Son, Chicago, manufacturers of P. N. corsets, that big $1200 solitaire at our advertised price of $879.50. And, believe me," continued Rueff, "he's, some dia mond expert himself." "Thanks, old top," said I; "111 put you in the Sunday ad, with a box around the story. That's the highest compliment I can give you." Thus does the effete and cultured East yield her tribute to the virile and ambitious West. Let 'em come, whether they make corsets, cocoanuts or crackers! You know there are a fcro con tract goods that Aronson can't re duce, even though he would like to Hamilton watches, for instance. A gentleman wanted one the other day at a price, but when he saw other fine ones so greatly reduced, he selected another famous make at the reduced price. Here are some more reasons for Internal cogitations, if you're short on time: 5125 Waltham watches for $93.75 SS5 Howard watches for $74.50. $55 Howard watches for $42.50. $40 Howard watches for $29.50 $26.50 Rockford watches, $15.S3 $45 Bracelet watches, 14K. $33.65 $25 Bracelet watches, $17.65. $20 Bracelet watches, 15-jewel, at $14.85. $17.50 Bracelet watches, 15 jewel, $10.85. Two wise jewelers from out of town bought at Aronson's this week Aronson's prices are for every body jobber, judge or jeweler. Hero are some of them: $15 solid gold brooches, set with genuine cameos, $10.85. $25 sterling mesh bags for $1S.75 $7.50 sterling vanity cases $5.65 $3.50 Wedgewood brooches $1.75 $7.50 and $8.50 solid gold pocket knives $4.85. $3.50 solid stick pins $2.35. $1.25 Hurd's paper and envelopes 65c 70c Hurd's paper and envelopes 35c. $2 umbrellas for $1.35. $2.50 umbrellas for $1.65. $5 umbrellas for $3.35. $7.50 silk umbrellas, all colors, $4.85. $7.50 cut glass bowls and vases $3.75. $5 cut glass bowls $2.50. $S.50 brass clocks for $6.35. $2.25 Parisian ivory clocks $1.65. $1.50 glass lemon dishes 75c. $1.50 perfume bottles with ster ling apply, 75c. $5 mahogany nut bowls with crackers. $2.85. $7.50 Sheffield fruit trays $4.85. $92 sterling tea set $69.85. $3.50 sterling sugar rack $1.85. I'm toliK to stop now until Aronaou diva me up a new Fubrr. I want to fret down anions the throng, anvway, and mirb the eaicer, hialnr face I want to dream of all the hipplnma that la being; atored up. aMaltins Itw aub atantial ejprruiaa on the Uajr of ilaja! m Open Evenings Until Christmas Aronson' Jewelers Goldsmiths Opticians Washington Street at Broadway W! , -rr-ELd Aronson's Jereelers Goldsmiths Opticians Washington Street at Broadway COVE TICKETS NAMED Mayor's Meeting and "Progressives' Nominate Separately. COVE. Or.. Dec. 3. fSpecIal.) At a town meeting prior to the regular call by the Mayor to consider candidates for election for Mayor, three Councllrnen. Treasurer. Recorder and Mwihal, there a aa a larg-e attendance In the Otly riaii Tuesday nlg.it. A "prOKresslve tlcKet was named as follows: For Mayor. F. A. Galloway, drug-fist: Councllrnen, H. E. Blevlns, merchant; K. Z. Baxter, bar ber; Treasurer. J. 11. McCall. banker; Recorder, S. H. Weimer, grain dealer; Marshal. W. F. Breshears, butcher. The call by Mayor Conklin for a town meeting at the City Hall Wednes day nisht was alo largely attended, and a ticket partly filled, leaving it open to voters to write 'In names on the blanks: Mayor, blank; Councllrnen. M. J. Emffey. farmer; Oscar Lund, or chardist; blank; Treasurer. J. H. Mc call: Recorder, blank: Marshal. C. F. Williams, employe; T. J. Ryan, employe. Oakville Has Two Tickets. CKNTRALIA. Wash.. Dec 2 (Spe cial.) Two tickets have been nom inated for the municipal election In nkville on Tuesday. A. P. Wilson bends one tioket as candidate for Mayor, with Thomas Glover and R. i.eHnv for Councilmen and William Simmons for Trensiirer. On the other ticket O. H. Fry Is candidate for Mayor. E. M. Beckley and II. W. Paul for Councllrnen and M. Eaton for Treas urer. C. M. Eaton. Mrs. Cora Prlca and Mrs. Cora Forrest have been des Irnsted as election official. FIVE MINUTES! NO INDIGESTION, NO GAS OR ANY STOMACH MISERY Don't Suffer! Here the Quickest, Surest Relief Known for Dyspepsia. Sourness, Heartburn or an Upset Stomach lry it William Griffith, of East Twenty eighth street, entertained a number of his friends In honor of his elrhth birth day last week, uames. muilc and re freshments were the order of the aft ernoon. The euests were Josephine Broock. Chloethice Woodard. MoUio and Carl Becker. Helen and Johnny Zoller, Wlllard and Herbert Cloyes. David Sandeberg, Robert Fantana ana Loren Everhart. Marvin L. W. Swire, son of Mr. and "Mrs. Solon.on ETwlre. cellTrated his fourth birthday December 3 win a merry party for nls young relatives. Halncy and Pasco Ministers Clunce. ALBANY". Or, Doe. 5. 5rec!aL Rev. C. H. Bryan, pastor of the Me:h odlut Church at Halney. and He J. l. Cain, pastor of the Methodlut Church of I-'as'-o. Wash., are to vichanae pul pits. Arrangements for tho excnanite nave been consummated by the con ferences to which both tnmlnters are attached and the two ministers mil take up their new pastorates next week. Toko ('9a 1 Slil pii-in j llraT . CEXTl'.ALIA. Wah.. Iwc. t.-ipe- claL) The Washington I'nlon Coal Company, d'irtnsr the month of Novem ber, snipped 3So carloads of coal from Its mines at Tono. indicating- the big increase of the coal output in the Cen tralia fields. The shipments from Tono aggregated 19,300 tons. It Is es timated that nearly 10C0 cars will be shipped from all of the mines In this vicinity during- December, In pape's m 22 QPAIN TBIANQULES OF I -1 lTT- I " i. IAPEPSIK i, feiisfJ STOPS INDIGESTION I . 'S LftS IN FlVt MINUTES. .. -7 A- VO vo A V 7 SETTl E3 UgSC 11: aV V f, P V 0 J " .J Rupture Cured with a pood truss that is properly fitted. Wa are experts at fitting trusses and have them at S1.50 and up. The S E E L E Y - SPERMATIC SHIELD appliance, for which we are exclusive agents, usually closes the opening: in 10 days. Satisfaction and fit guaranteed or money back. Laue-Davis Drug Co. TRUSS EXPERTS 8d and Yamhill Sts., Portland, Oregon. rrr V.'ondtr what upt your stomach wfctch portion of the food did the dam- . He do rout Ve:l. don't bother. If your stomach 1 In- a revolt ; if sour, gmr and upaet. ana what you Ju.t ate has fermented into stubborn lumps: your heaa aixty ana icnei, nn - -tnd acids and eructate undigested food; breath foul, tongue coated Just take a little Diapepsin and in five minutes you will wonder what becams of the Indigestion and distress. Millions of men and women today know that It Is needless to have a bad stomach." A Uttle ZJiapepsin occasion al! keeps the stoinsoh reg-u'.ated and i tuey eat Iheir favorite foods without j fear. If your atomacn doesn't talco ear of your liberal limit without rebellion; If your food Is a damage instead of a help, remember the Quickest, surest, most harmless relief Is Fape's Dlspep tln. which costs only fifty cents for a large case at drug stores. It's truly wonderful it digests food and sets things straight, so gently and easily that It 1 1 astonishing. Please don't go on and on With a uk, diaordersd stomach; it's so unnecessary. 1 In. 11 Tts WorlSt GreaUtt ExUmal RemsJy Pain In Cldc, Rheumatism, Backache, Any Local Pain. ALWAYS INSIST ON HAVING ALLCC3TS SJt. at ajs n Jm jajwaai i, as af mi A aai i .' 1 in H ' - - - . ..J orQQ Every Wicf flbr CoiistipationsKeaddcIie.Ihdiclesticiive! LJryrTrrrrT v a- yyr?rr?r i- g w. rT rr. g tHJ