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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1912)
THE TIMES THE TIMES OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST FALLACY OF SOCIALISM. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON (Continued from Page 1.) wants o f others best, prospers and at 212 First Street, Portland, Oregon. Phones: Main 5637; A-2686. The farmers o f Harney county have puts other laborers under his di commenced sowing spring grain. rection. This leads to the eon TH E TIM E S if* not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents A great run o f smelt is now going stant selection o f the best mana appearing in its columns. Events Occurring Throughout up the Sandy river, the first big run gers and to social efficiency. In for about eight years. Entered in Postoffice at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. socialism there could be no sucl\ the State During the Past The Pacific State bank has been in natural selection o f men most corporated at Astoria. It has a capital capable o f directing labor. Vote Week. A FEARLESS E X PO N E N T OF IN D U S T R IA L PEACE o f $25,000 and w ill do business at Sea getting, not efficiency, would put ’{fevH side. a man on top in this the para SUBSCRIPTION RATES— $2.50 per year, in advance. Contractor* Sued For Death. Portland's population on March 1, dise o f demagogues. Under such A D V E R T IS IN G RATES made known upon application. Albany.—J. C. Anderson, adminis according to Polk’s new city directory, management and judging by trator of the estate of W. A. Anderson, was 257,490, an increase of 28 per cent present governmental inefficiency, deceased, has filed a complaint In the over the federal census taken two Saturday, April 13, 1912. the promised three hours labor a circuit court of Linn county, asking years ago. day would have to be extended for $10,000 damages against H. M. THE HICKS CASE. James Underwood and J. D. Rhodes more nearly to 13 hours, to pro IIE verdict of “ not gu ilty,” rendered by twelve men accepted by Byllesby & Co. and O’N eil Bros, and of Baker have sold the Underwood duce enough to live on. The the State as men who were fu lly competent to try the case, is Calahan company. It is alleged that placer mine in the Cornucopia district promise that each man shall he» the defendants, while excavating on to Walla Walla capitalists. Tire price hoped to be a blessing to the whole city of Portland as well as the ceive the full social product of Hicks fam ily and friends. It is a verdict that has been hoped for by the North Santiam, set off a blast in was $60,000. his toil is worthless when they close proximity to an old trail with Supplementary articles of incorpora every fair-minded and liberty-loving man and woman in the country, out giving any warning to passersby, tion filed with the secretary of state have no pratcical means o f ascer except, possibly, those who were intimate friends of Wortman and a and that the deceased was injured by by the Valley & Siletz road, provide taining the relative value o f the few union fanatics. the blast to such an extent that he for the construction of a railroad from archtitect as compared with tho TH E T IM E S sincerely hopes that this will mark a new era in the section boss. Only under a com lied soon afterwards. Independence to Newport. history of union picketing and put a stop to the brutal and unfair petitive system where each man Two hundred letters to the various methods employed by such strikers as Wortman and his gang. gravitates to his proper place can Let Contract for Irrigation Plant. Granges of the state wers sent out by Candidate fo r Nomination for The annoyance caused Hicks and his workmen was unbearable Deschutes.— The contract for the Superintendent Alderman, urging the such values be found out. and something had to be done. Hicks was not the only one who was This socialism strikes me as a construction of a solid concrete dam Grange to co-operate for the promotion Representative in Congress sorry he killed Wortman, but he had to do it in order to save his across the Deschutes river and the disease rather than a crime. Its own life. W e are all sorry to see a human life taken, but when it is first two miles of the north canal has and betterment of the Oregon schools. advocates condemn the public Judge Gantenbein, judge of The W illam ette valley loganberry done in self-defense we would all still more bitterly object to the school system, the churches, the the Circiut Court o f Multnomah been let by the Central Oregon Irri punishing o f an innocent man. That Ilicka was innocent was the gation company to L. F. Oedertz, a crop for 1912 has been entirely sold, capitalists, the Government, and county, is one o f the most pro and an order from Chicago to the unanimous opinion o f twelve good men which consumed several days prominent engineer of Portland. Mr. Truly Shakespeare gressive candidates in the raco Salem fruit union f o r -100,000 pounds patriotism. to select. Gedertz w ill complete the work in had the socialists in mind when The example o f this ease should be fa ir warning to unions to record time, as he has bound himself of dried loganberries cannot be filled. he said, “ A ll things look yellow for Congress. He would make an The Southern Pacific is preparing restrain their pieketers from violence and take an orderly and not to complete both within 120 days. Some of able representative if elected and a tariff that will give points on the to the jaundiced eye.” the disorderly course in trying to persuade workmen to go on strike Tillamook line the same rate on lum them seem to be men who have is better qualified to represent the or join their union. ber shipments to the east as are in bidden farewell to every grain of people o f Oregon than some of PETITIONS ARE IN effect from Portland and other coast sense they ever had. No religious his opponents. THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM. fanatic, Christian or Moham Completed List of Candidates Sees ports. Judge Gantenbein is not only G R E A T deal has been said and written about our present in 174 in Race. The federal forest department has medan, was ever more dogmatic They are so positive» an able attorney and counselor- dustrial system. Whether won call it government or whatever Salem.— With 174 completed peti decided to spend $10,000 for forest talin they. term you choose, it is the contention of T H E TIM E S that we. the citi tion» in, the clerical force in the office fire protection in western Oregon this that they have a cure-all by at-law, lmt is one o f the most zens of the United States o f America, enjoy the best, safest and most of the secretary of state has complet year. This is double the amount which imperfect humanity can fair-minded judges Multnomah satisfactory system o f government we or any other nation or band of ed the task of checking up and ar spent in the state by the national for achieve practically perfect re county has ever had. Labor as sults, if they will only believe. people have ever enjoyed since the history o f the universe began. ranging the list of candidates to be est service last year. Under our present system the rich and poor alike have an opportun certified to the various clerks in the The Remington lodging house in Through all the talk o f the well as capital has always re ity to eventually achieve whatever they desire. The workingman of state. In all 124 republicans filed or Klamath Falls burned and two Greek socialists there runs a strain of ceived a square deal at his hands. today may become the capitalist o f tomorrow. By the term “ work iginal petitions and five of the number laborers were burned to death. An forceful tyranny. “ No man shall There is but little doubt that ingman” we mean the man that works, honestly and intelligently and failed to file completed petitions. Of other Greek was seriously burned, be allowed to make profit from Judge Gantenbein w ill be our is ever on the alert to the interests o f his employer. To this man in the 58 democrats who filed original and as he may have inhaled fire, it is another man’s labor.” That is, next representative in Congress. dependence is hound to come. O f course, the man who continually petitions all but two filed completed feared he too may die. the right o f free contract shall be Oregon Democrats have initiated a abolished. watches the clock for quitting time and who spends all his money for petitions. “ A ll men w ill be The republicans who did not qualify concerted movement all over the state equal.” “ booze” on pay-day, will never achieve much in life. W e admit that That is, equality, which there are a few industrious men out o f employment today, lmt in nine by filing final petitions are Edward N. for writing the name o f United States des not exist in nature, is to be Camp of Douglas county, Thomas B. Senator Chamberlain on their primary forced on people by some high eases out o f ten it is the fault o f the man rather than the system. Hooker of Polk county, C. M. Rynerson election ballots as the party's candi handed proceeding. And what An antagonistic and defiant attitude combined with intemperate of Multnomah county, ail candidates date for vice-president. just complaint have they to make On May 1 postal savings banks will against the churches? They aro speech got Floyd Ramp, a would-be socialist, into trouble in Cor- for delegates to the national conven viilis a few days ago when he attempted to analzyze the philosophy tion; Emmett Calahnn of Baker coun open at the following fourth-class free to attend or to stay away. o f socialism. Instead of confining his remarks to socialism, Rami ty, candidate for judge of the circuit postoffices: Eagle Point, Fossil, Glen They must wish to abolish this denounced everything and everybody, which resulted in a shower of court for the eighth district and G. N. dale, Haines, lone, Laidlaw, Mosier, free and fa ir arrangement, use rotten eggs, several o f which.reached the desired destination, mucr Davis of Multnomah county, candidate North Powder, Port Orford, Richland, some compulsion in religious mat Riddle, Stanfield, Sutherlin, Yoncalla. ters. to the displeasure o f Ramp. The most provocable remarks were for district attorney. The two democrats who failed to Governor West has announced that In Ancient Egypt the govern centered on the members of the National Guard and the Boy Scouts qualify are Alfred D. Crldge o f Mult he w ill not interfere with the sentence ment fed and worked everybody. o f America, whereupon Ramp was taken into custody by the officers nomah county and Emil T. Kaddant of of life imprisonment imposed upon Under this system the Pyramids and ushered into a cell surrounded by steel bars. This being the Lincoln county, both candidates for Emmett and Earl Shields, Ben Hinton were built. The bulk o f the peo first offence by Ramp, he was turned loose the next day on the delegates to the national convention. and Albert Green, who were convict ple must have believed in slav- promise that he would be good, being assured by the officers that ed of the murder of Ollie Snyder in erj\ I f we moderns also believe the next disturbance would land him on the rockpile. New W ill Is Filed. Grant county, near Monument. in slavery we w ill get it, probably Pendleton.— A seventh will was filed The senate committee on commerce in larger doses than we antici When City Clerk H arry Kress at Iloquiam, Washington, became for probate here in the estate of James has decided to incorporate into the a traitor to the city, in that he participated in the activity o f the W. Young by Fred Young, a brother of rivers and harbors bill an appropria pate. But if we experience a “ red flag arista,’ * lie was duly discharged from his position. The Mrs. Mabel Young Warner, who has tion of $100,000 to begip the construc change o f heart, accept freedom people o f Iloquiain decided that they would not tolerate a city clerk figured prominently in Umatilla coun tion of the Nehalem bay jetties, a unreservedly, freedom in trade as well as in speech and in religion who was untrue to the flag o f the people who elected him. ty courts through her contests for project to cost over $600,000, accord the open market everywhere; possession of her uncle's estate. Fred ing to reports of army engineers. Mexico, when it tires o f its present revolution, is to have the Young is one of the beneficiaries Governor West has received a copy then labor working to the best Flynn-Johnson prizefight fo r amusement. This match will likely be named in the seventh will. of a bill introduced in the United advantage will produce the best Candidate fo r Republican a novelty nfter a succession o f revolts, fo r it is not altogether im States senate by Senator Chamberlain, possible results, and the laborer Nomination fo r probable that someone may get hurt. provisions of which will enable the receive better treatment because Project Work is Delayed. more in demand. The law o f ad Klamath Falls.— Work of construct state to create a Btate forest through JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT ing the second unit of the Klamath the exchange of scattering school sec justment can come into more ac COURT. PERILOUS POSING. RILED THE ART STUDENT. project, which when completed is to tions in federal forests for a compact tive operation, and evil, which is Dept. No. 4. lack o f adjustment, be gradually Getting " H u m a n I n t e r e s t ” In the Cam furnish water to Poe valley and a body of forest reserve land. H e Re se nte d at F i r s t t h e C o m m e n t s of er a M a n ’s Pi ctures. Is a native of the State o f Oregon stretch of territory In the Klamath val Issuance of patents to Siletz home lessened. H is U n k n o w n Critic. The above article was written being admitted to the bar in 1884 A. W. Dimock in Outing toil« o f his An art student was copying one o f ley in the vicinity of Stukel Mountain, steaders under the Hawley bill may engagement as a professional «llsturber Abott S Thayer’s paintings at the Met will not be commenced immediately, be delayed Indefinitely, the land of by Dick Sowerby fo r the Sunday and having practiced here for o f snakes, lynx, alligator*, tarpon, etc., ropolitan Museum o f Art in N ew York as expected, according to the officials fice claiming to have evidence that Oregonian. twenty-seven years. Published every Saturday by T H E T IM E S G’O M P A N Y , Incorporated V 7 i T T C. U. Gantenbein A W . Y . M asters for his camera man and of a partial drowning necessary to supply the “ hu man Interest” T o quote him; *‘ \Yhen a colled rattlesnake needed stirring up I shook a short stiek In his face. I f we caught a hlg ’gator or crocodile on a bank 1 was the one to keep between It and its home. In river or hay, and discourage with n club its advance. When our captive lynx was k*t out o f his cage to pose it was my business to keep him busy with llsli or otherwise lest lie eat the camera man. I was expected to hypnotize any him. from a tern to a turkey buzzard, while the camera man got In his work. ••Even tarpon fishing was made ad venturous, ami half n dozen times a day I heard the shout: •• T n ii't you pull your canoe nenrer the fish? I must have human inter est.' “ Then I dragged on the line till the canoe w as over a fish that was Bigger than I, which often stint ten feet over my head, sometimes crashing Into the canoe, when instead o f being prompt ly rescued I was likely to hear the rail; •' 'Swim farther out. where the light Is tH'ttor'' ** Lettera of Marque. Lettera o f marque and reprisai, ns they were calloil, wero ilrst Instasi in thè tinte o f Edward I to givo leave to retalíalo beyond thè marches or limita o f a country for wrongs mtfTorod at thè liniids o f a power untuinally at pom e. In tille first tnstnnce they were uluied at Portugal. About 100 yenrs Inter t wo Untino lowns In Moeklouburg, wlslting to relieve tholr prime, who was belengtiered iu Stockholm. Issuod lettera o f marque thievos' lettera, as thè sufferer» en 1 lisi thein- to all thè ranéala o f thè llaltlc outhortilng thern to vietimi thè besleged city. Thiw dono, they ttirned themselvea loto a eonfed erney o f sea robbera known ns Ylctiml- tng lirotbers, or St. Vitalias' Brothers, nud rendermi thè Scnndiuavlau sea» uusafe /or hnlf a oentury. one day when a plainly dressed man who looked as if he might bo a me chanic approached and, postlug himself at. the young man's elbow, watched him ns he labored over his subject “ You’ve got the angle o f the mouth wrong, and the left eye is too oblique,’* remarked the man decidedly. Tlie student blinked angrily, and the hand that wielded the brush trembled slightly, but he took no notice o f the un(ll)|,( crtttelsm. .-rllere ls too InlIrh y(q,ow ln y0Ur fleM| tlnt » (.on„ nm^ , h„ man. of the reclamation service here. options have been given on some Si- ietz lands and will start an investiga tion to ascertain if any o f these op HOLD-UP SHOOTS THREE tions are on lands affected by the Lone Man Kills Two, Injures One, of Hawley bill. Advising State Treasurer Kay that Automobile Party, Portland.— Shot by an unidentified the war department is now ready to man who opened fire with a pump purchase the locks and canal o f the aliotgun when an automobile carrying Portland Railway, Light A Power Mai* 5637 them was not stopped on his com company at Oregon City, for $375,000, ñ I T <*, mand. George Hastings, University of the assistant secretary has called Oregon medical student, and Donald upon the state to deposit $200,000 of ♦ McCloud Stewart, son of Charles Stew the $300,000 appropriated to purchase ^ Still no reply front the student, who art, a"wealthy grain buyer, were killed them jointly. ostentatiously slapped on more yellow Barley can be made to do for Ore and Irving Lupton, wounded in the in the high light on the nose. "Did you hear what I said?” ques right arm. on the White House road gon what corn has done of Iowa as near the foot of the Elkrock hill grade a stock fattener is the belief of Harvey tioned tlie man. “ Yes, 1 did," responded the student between Oswego and lilverdale. Oth Lounsbury, general freight agent of wrnthfully. turning and glaring nt his er members of the auto party, namely, the Southern Pacific, who has just modest looking critic. "W hat do you Bruee Stewart, member of the Mann completed the distribution of 150acres know about It. anyway?” Stewart Printing eompuny, who of barley seed among farmers on the “ I ought to know something about owned the car and was driving, and main and branch lines of the South it,” was the smiling response. " It was II. L. Tabb, clerk In the freight de ern Pacific between Portland and A l l who painted the picture.” —New York partment of the Northern Pacific, were bany. Press. uninjured. Loggers from various districts of ORRIN E. STANLEY M. Am. 8oe. O. E. The top of Hasting'» head was | the Pacific Northwest, meeting inform- Boots and Spurs. blown off by the second charge of I ally at Portland, laid plans for a per- ENGINEERING AD VISER. D RAFTIN G A contemisirury manuscript account buckshot. He died four minutes later. ! manent organization to include the as- AND B L U E P R IN T IN G . o f tin* diet o f Itatishon, held in 1030 by Stewart, who was struck by the third sociations in the Columbia River dis Telephone Marshall 1554. tlie Emperor Ferdinand II. on the oc charge, died at St. Vincent's hospital. trict, the Puget Sound district and the casion o f tlie landing o f Gustavus •<24 Chamber of Commerce, Portland. Oregon. Grays Harbor district. Uniform meth Adolphus of Sweden In Germany, men Two Events Combined. ods o f scaling and grading logs, co- j - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - tions as a remarkable fact that tlie Roseburg.—At a special meeting of operation in various other phases of I ____ Hungarian cavalry who rode through the street* to the ceremonial wore the trustees of the Roseburg contmer- business activity, and closer social re- C. J. WILSON their spurs on their boot solos, it is club. It was decided to hold the lations is the purpose of the organiza difficult to credit that these spurs were fourth annual Strawberry and Rose tion. COMMERCIAL A R T IS T AND fixed on tlie Hut of the boot, for thus ¡ Carnival in conjunction with its an- Declaring that under present condi CARTOONIST. shod the horsemen could neither walk kual meeting of the State Grange, tions it will be but a short time until nor stand, especially when tlie large which convene» in Roseburg on May the federal government will own all 148 Market Street, Portland, Oregon. size o f the spur* worn at the period is !«, 17 and 18. the land guitable for water power sites considered. 1’ roLably the w riter In I _______________________ and the state will own the wa.er, State tended to Indicate that Instead o f be Rat. Darnaginfl Timber. Engineer John H. Lew is calls atten ing fastened to the heel ln the usual ____ .. . fashion they were made to project , * 0« » W G ro v e .-T h e theory that It tion to the need for the people of In C TC A S C Y O U F B u s i n e s s from the fore part o f the military boot, ls woo<1 ra,R Bn<* not 1 ’orcuplne. or ihe state to give serious thought to by placing your advertisement in which Is a portion o f the sole. The ' <,ulr" la damaging timber iff this matter, to the end that proper TH E TIMES. same manuscript adds that the nun- lhi* »cotton 0f the county was ad- legislation may be enacted to enable giirlan horses had their manes, tall* |' »need by W. C. Gonner. who brought the federal and state governments to W rite for our advertising rates. and feet pniuted red. i In a »ample of the work of wood rat* eo-operate ln developing these great done on his place near here. resource* ATTORNEYS ATTENTION! ó : t pubusnh 0 t ¥^ LEGAL IN THE TIMES A-2686 SEVEN INSERTIONS FOR $ 2 . 5 0 f f + + + I + «> + + + D IR EC TO R Y of Portland’ s Leading Business Firms. J. H. MORTON, M. E.‘ IN D U S T R IA L ENGINEER Design* Complete Industrial Plants or any component part, mechanical or structural. Old Plants Modernized. Drafting. Phone Main 1622. 924 Chamber of Commerce. Portland, Oregon. ARTHUR D. MONTEITH C IV IL AND H Y D R A U LIC ENGINEER General Surveying. Landscape Engineering. Construction .Superintendence, Reports and Estimates on Projects. Water Supply, Ir r i gation, Sewerage. Phones: Main 5645. Res. Phone E 6185. Lumber Exchange Building. Phone East 63. U. S. LAUNDRY CO. 180 GRAND AVE.. COR. EAST Y A M H IL L , Portland, Oregon.