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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1912)
THE TIMES tlon&l, state, private and savings banka In Its Inquiry, aa well as loan and trust companies. Reports are Published every Saturday by THE T IM E S COM PANY, Incorporated at 212 First Street, Portland, Oregon. Phones: Main 5637; A-2686. asked for showing conditions at the TH E TIM E S is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents close of business April 30. appearing in its columns. National Capital Brevities THE TIMES Entered in Postoflfice at Portland, Oregon, as second class matter. panled here by B. B. Pratt, who has been conducting such experiments In Portland the past year, says that the greatest portion of decay In storage la caused by bruising from rough hand ling- He also lays strong emphasis on the preccollng of fruit immediately after It Is picked. The department of agriculture ia giving especial attention to the methods of precooling. *ATTORNEYS ATTENTION! PUBLISH YOUR NOTICES LEGAL IN There are In the United States, so- cording to the census rsport, 6,361,502 A-2686 Mils 5637 farms, containing a total of 878,798,000 SUBSCRIPTION RATES— $2.50 per year, in advanced acres, of which 478,452,000 acres are AD V E R TIS IN G R ATES made known upon application. Improved. Motor Car for Branch Railway. SATURDAY, M A Y 4, 1912. The senate bill appropriating 91,- La Grande.— The commercial club 500,000 to repair the crevasses in the Is working for the establishment of a broken levess of the Mississippi river motor car service on the branch line HORSES AT ROSE FESTIVAL. O R T L A N D as a city is proud o f its roses. Oregon as a State is and its tributaries was passed by the between La Grande and Elgin in ad house. dition to the regular service now In proud o f its horses. The finest roses in the world grow in the No n o te copper pennies will be vogue. city. The finest horses in the world are bred in the State. In either coined If the Bulkley bill, providing case we need not have any fear o f the superlative. three-cent pieces, becomes a law. In Work on Eugene Line Halts. So it is altogther meet and proper that in the annual festival stead there will be one-cent pieces i Eugene.— Work on reconstruction of season wherein this city celebrates the glory o f the rose, the Oregon which will be composed of an alloy the Eugene lines of the Portland, Eu that Is piacttcally the same as the gene & Eastern railway practically horse should participate and in the capacity in which he is most | y has been suspended because of the useful to men— as a work horse, as a big factor in the industry o f i senator Cummin's bill providing for lack of paving rails. IN D U S T R IA L ENGINEER. M. Am. Soc. C. E. the commonwealth. [ an appeal to the United States eu- Designs Complete Industrial Plants or any ENG INEERING AD VISER. D RAFTIN G Town 8tarts Commercial Club. component part, mechanical or structural. W hoever was responsible for that idea o f a parade o f Oregon preme court from the decision of the AND BLUI-PBUfTOfO. Old Plants Modernized. Drafting. district court In New York, approving Fallbrldge.—In keeping with Its rap work-horses has brought to the front a feature of the Rose Festival Telephone Marshall 1554. the reorganisation of the American id civic progress and the spirit of the Phone Main 1622. which will prove to he one o f tie most attractive among the many (Tobacco company has unanimously state of Oregon. Fallbrldge has taken 824 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon. 924 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon. attractive features of that annual event. The magnificent, well-bred j passed the senate, steps toward the organization of a commercial club. horse o f Oregon is a sight worth seeing any time or anywhere. And A FEARLESS E X PO N E N T OF IN D U S T R IA L PEACE. THE TIMES SEVEN INSERTIONS FOR $2.50 P D IR EC TO R Y of Portland’ s Leading Business Firms. when gathered in parade as such horses w ill be during the coming Festival, Oregon’s horses w ill easily rank as among the chief features of the celebration. It was a happy idea and will add much to the pleasure o f the annual rose show. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON ORRIN E. STANLEY J. H. MORTON, M. E. C. J. WILSON ARTHUR D. MONTEITH COMMERCIAL A R T IS T AND C IV IL AND H Y D R A U L IC ENGINEER. General Surveying, Landscape Engineering, Construction Superintendence, Reports and Estimates on Projects, Water Supply, Irri gation, Sewerage. Governor Oswald W est has a new CARTOONIST. title. He is admiral ot the good roads Phones: Main 5645. Res. Phone E 6185. squadron. 348 Market Street, Portland, Oregon. Lumber Exchange Building. The State Building Commission o f the State o f Washington has Events Occurring Throughout The 1912 spring-summer salmon sea son opened along the Columbia river lately entered into a contract for the erection of the Temple o f Justice the State During the Past und Its tributaries Wednesday. at Olympia, and has agreed that none but union labor shall be em Phone East 63. Week. A lightship for Orford reef on the ployed in such construction. They did this, according to a letter Oregon coast Is provided for by an by placing your advertisement in from the Secretary of the State o f Washington, E. W . Ross, so that amendment to the tfmnibus lighthouse Injured Employe Sues Mill. TH E TIM ES. labor complications, calculated to disturb the peace and harmony hill, appropriating $150,000 for Its con 180 GRAND AVE., COR. EAST Y A M H IL L , Astorlu.— A suit was filed In the Write for our advertising rates. Portland, Oregon. o f the work, and its completion within the time specified, would not circuit court by Henry Sutinen against struction. A fight against skyscrapers hns been take place. the Clatsop Mill company to recover started by the Oregon chapter of the The courts have more than once passed upon the legality of g iv $15,000 damages for personal Injuries American Institute of Architects. The alleged to have been sustained by the ing to any class of citizens, in public work particularly, discriminat chapter Is opposed to buildings more plaintiff, who asserts that on April 3, than 160 feet high. ing in favor of a part of the people what belongs to the whole o f the 1912, while running a machine known Convicts at the state prison have people, and will again construe the laws o f the land as to the rights as a sash sticker, his right hand was been selected as subjects for experi o f the whole of the people to share in the benefits o f State work. caught In the knives of the machine mental dental work at the spring ex This w ill certainly take place, and the Commission o f the State of and three fingers were cut off. amination of applicants for state den Washington w ill be enjoined upon the facts as related should they tal licenses, June 3. Move Started to Unite Colleges. Supplementary articles of Incorpor not reconsider their act in this respect. Dallas.— Calling on Governor West ation increasing Its capital stock from to appoint a commission to look into $30,000 to $60,000 have been filed with all phases and plans broached for the Opposition to the proposed location of the new public library the secretary of state at Salem by the consolidation of the University of was expressed in strong resolutions adopted by the last meeting of Oregon nnd the Oregon Agricultural State bank of Albany. Senator Chamberlain's bill asking the Oregon Chapter of thq American Institute o f Architects, it being College, n resolution was unanimously that an additional $10,000 be added to the unanimous opinion o f this organization that the building should passed here at a mass meeting, pre the appropriation of $65,000 heretofore lie made a unit in the Greater Portland Plans for a “ civic center.” sided over by E. B. Piper, president of granted for the construction of a fed the Portland Commercial Club. eral building at Albany, has passed The Chapter also went on record as favoring the limitation of the the senate. height o f skyscrapers to 1450 feet. The present building lien law, Seventh W ill Refused. That Oregon farm lands are attrac which is said to be unsatisfactory to the building industry, was con Pendleton.— Mabel Young Warner, Yes, that is a personal question, a tive to eastern investors and settlers alleged maker of bogus wills and cre demned and the new measure fathered by the local Builders’ E x very personal question— one that affects Is shown by the activity throughout ator of sensations, suffered another re your whole life; and yet you would change was indorsed. the state the past week. Several tracts verse In hej- long battle for the estate thank us for asking it if you knew what The Fresno Republican advises the public not to feed the invad of her uncle, when County Judge J. W. ranging In price from $5000 to $20,000 an immense power for betterment we ing I. W . W .’s. The advice seems to have been taken, for the army Maloney handed down a decision re were purchased by newcomers. could be to you and your salary. William E. Borah, United States sen o f about one hundred that were encamped at Fresno, and who threw fusing to admit to probate the seventh T o draw a small salary month after month, year after year, is your own ator from Idaho, hns been Indorsed as a red flag to the breeze, has departed. The invaders were offered will to the estate, and ordering the pe the republican candidate for vice-pres fault. It is pure negligence and nothing else, for there is an institution tition dismissed. that is ever ready to enable you to rise to the highest, best paying posi work, and were given to understand that whenever they would work ident to b* complimented by the vote tions in the profession of your choice—no matter how poor your circum of the Oregon delegation at Chicago, they might eat, hut not otherwise. NEW SUIT MAY RESULT stances may be, how old or how young you are, no matter where you according to the best figures obtain able. live. And to prove this the I. C. S. points to hundreds of thousands of The Builders’ Exchange of Bakersfield has decided to practically Fight on University Petitions W ill be Baldwin Falrrhlld, a member of the other men who have secured advancement and success through the I. C. S. Continued. employ union and non-union help, and will fill all vacancies, caused Slletz Indian tribe, was given a sen plan; to hundreds of others in worse circumstances than you are, whose Salem.— That the end of the effort tence of 18 months In the federal pen by sympathetic strikes and walkouts, from the ranks o f the unem stories of advancement read like romance; to a growth from a mere idea to declare fraudulent and void the itentiary at McNeil's Island by Judge with one Course of Instruction to one of the largest educational institu ployed, regardless of union affiliation. referendum petitions dlrectod at more W olverton In federal court at Port tions in existence with 208 Courses of Instruction, backed by a capital of than $500,000 worth of University of land, for introducing liquor onto the six million dollars, and a total enrolment far in excess of any other col Oregon appropriations Is not yet In that Captain Stanley Lord, of the Cal reservation. lege—a growth made possible only as the result of success in its business ifornian, refused later to go to the aid Bight and that the cause will be dc W hile at Washington, D. C.. recent —and the business o f this place is to raise salaries. of the Titanic, the rockets from which elded upon Its merits If there Is any ly. Major Jay J. Morrow, Corps of Without doubt this plan is the most practical, the quickest, easiest, possible way to reach such a decislyu. Engineers, U. S. A., let a contract to could be plainly seen. and cheapest way in the world for YOU to secure a better position Cnptaln Lord entered a sweeping de was the statement of Judge Sinter. the Seattle Construction & Drydock and increased earnings. It puts He announces that a motion for re company for the building of the dredge nial of Gill's accusations and read ex you under no obligation whatever International Corrrsoondrncr Schools hearing will be filed In a short time, Colonel P. S. Machle, which will be to send us this coupon and allow Senate Committee on Titanic tracts from the Californian's log that and pending decision on that petition, operated at Coos Bay. support his contention. Captnln Lord Plea*# explain .without further obligation on my part. our experts to explain our system how 1 can quality lot a larger salary and advancement Disaster Will Advocate said that If the ship's wireless oper the law will be gone Into thoroughly to the position before which I have marked X. Because they asserted they were re of instruction, and adapt a Course ator had been on duty he would have to determine Just what course to pur ceiving bad beefsteak, stale potatoes, to your personal needs. Ad Writer Archltec’ l Draftsman Wireless Legislation. Show-Card W riter Structural Engineer caught the Tltnnlc's signals, and that sue to tnke the cases to trial on their bad bacon and worse gravy for their Window Trimmer Do you really want to earn Structural Draftsman Civil Service Fxants. Contractor & Builder merits. It would have taken about two hours food, 250 track layers on the Oregon Ornamental Designer more salary? Would you like the Foreman Plumber Mechanical Engineer Civil Engineer The supreme court. In lt3 decision, Electric extension south of Salem Washington.— It Is clear that the to reach the Titanic’s position. salary bag to yield you more each Mechanical Drafts. R. R. Con. Engineer Foreman Machinist Surveyor stated that S H. Friendly, as an Indi walked out and refused to return to senate committee Investigating the T i week or month? Then make a Electrical Engineer Was Making 23 Knots. Mining Engineer Electrician Chemist vidual taxpayer, did not have capa tanic disaster ban mu<le up Its mind to work until better food was furnished. definite attempt to bring this Power-Station Supt. Bookkeeper The committee has developed that city to sue, but said at the same time Architect Stenographer advocate legislation preventing wlre- A direct tax on franchise and land about by sending in this coupon. the Titanic rushed at n 23-knot gait that the suit should have been brought leaa operators on shipboard from hold holdings assessed for $10,000 or more, Tom orrow never comes. Do it Same _________ through a vast field of lee, apparently by a law officer of the state. ing buck details of dlaaatera. Mr. graduated on an Increasing scale as today. Street and No heedless of warnings Other testi Marconi and Mr. Samuils both ack the valuation Increases, is proposed mony Indicates many vessels were City __________ Father and Son Named. S ta te - nowledged that a mistake had been In an Initiative petition soon to be cir within n few miles of the sinking liner, Albany.— A pecular coincidence de culated with a view to Its submission made In sending to Operators Bride but their wireless operators were veloped In the recent primary election ami Oottatn, on board the Cnrpnthla, to the people at the November elec asleep. Her ro-kets were seen but Ig In Linn county In that a father and messages not to give oat anything un tion. nored. Vice-President Franklin has son were both nominated for Justice til they had seen Marconi ashore. The body of James Mitchell, the vjiittted he heard the rumor of the of the pence and that neither was a More lifeboats on transatlantic lin young man who fell overboard from rroressionai pride. Senator Bourne of Oregon has pre disaster over 16 hours and received candidate on the ballot, but both were ers. an equipments of rafts that auto- j the gasoline schooner Gerald C., while sented a memorial ln the senate, sign A local pugilist was brought before positive confirmation from the steam nominated by both the republican and matlenlly will float clear of a sinking ! the vessel was lying at the Elmore ed by C. L. Leavlngood and Frank n police magistrate charged with as er Olympic over six hours before he democratic parties. vessel and the construction of great | dock at Astoria last November, was Terrace praying for the passage of a sault. Said the magistrate: felt the news sufficiently "authentic" “ Prisoner, complainant says that you passenger steamships with double j found floating in the river opposite hill which provides for the disposition to disclose It to the relatives of the T i Old Mill Still Runs. hulls and extended water tight com | the Tallant & Grant cannery by two of any lands ln Oregon which may be willfully and maliciously knocked bis tanic's passengers nnd the public. hat off.” Springfield.— Among the historic Finnish fishermen. part incuts are other reforms which I declared forfeited by a decree in the Europeans Send Warships to Mexloo. structures of Oregon there are few Up spoke the accused, pride in his will exist In the Immediate future. Official complete registration re suit of the United States agnlnst the As a direct result of a decision still in use, which date their origin voice: turns as compiled by the secretary of Oregon & California Railroad com Captain Moore, of the steamer i "No. your honor: I didn't knock his reached by President Taft at a cabinet back ns far as does the old grist mill state's office were given out showing pany. Mount Temple related the wireless hat off. I knocked him from under his meeting, not to send a warship to pro at Springfield, now used In the manu record of the last words flashed by the j a total of 131,800 Oregon voteni reg C. H. Lane of the department of the h a t"—New York Times. tect American nnd other foreign citi facture of flour for export trnde. The Titanic to many shtps, and told how. istered before the primaries. Of these interior at Washington has been dele zens In Mexico, hut to send a trans mill wna built lu 1856. only 49 miles away, he approached to 93,070 were republicans, 28,417 demo gated to make a trip through Oregon His Way. port Instead, the British, French and within 14 miles, only to And himself crats, 4928 socialists, 1655 prohibition in the Interest of the Industrial move "A t the beginning o f each week Tlte- German governments are rushing wad gives his w ife the money to run barricaded behind mountains of ice PREC00LING STATION ists and 16 nonpartisan. ment among children, which is being cruisers across the Atlantic. Jnpnn PLAN Theodore Roosevelt carried Oregon fostered by the department of public the house on dnriug the week." Titanic Commander "Moat Unwise." I will also send warships to protect her “ I suppose be asks her how much Federal Officials Investigate Hood in the vote for president at the pri Instruction ln Oregon. Mr. Lane will Captain Moore denounced as "most citizens. River Conditions. mary election by a plurality of 6605 arrive at Pendleton May 8, and from money she wants and then bands It it has been pointed out by President unwise” the notion of the Titanic's over?" Hood River.— The United States De votes over William H. Taft. These there will make 15 visits to different commander In rushing at 21 knots j Taft that any form of 'nterventlon partment of Agriculture during the “ No. he asks her how Uttle she can are the figures as compiled from offi portions of Oregon. got along with nnd bands that over.” — through the night, when he had been would he followed by n slaughter of past winter hns made the Hood River cial returns from every county In the Nearly 60 per cent of all wheat ex Houston Boat advised of the Ice. He was also em I the American and other foreign cltP valley the scene of various experi state. The vote was, Roosevelt. 28,878, ported In March from the United phatic In his assertion that the posi sons. ments, and A V. Steubenrnuch. of the Ln Follette, 22.276. and Taft 20,504. Too Much Nothing. States was shipped from Portland, ac tion sent out by the Titanic was Banks Are Inquired Into. pomological ofTice of the department, Kalb A Larkin, who operate a log cording to the monthly statistics of “ This cheese is full of holes." com wrong. He said the ship was eight As the first step In the money trust has been here to investigate condi ging camp on Nagel river, have ac the department of commerce and la plained the prospecUve purchaser. miles further eastward than Its oper Investigation, the committee on hank tions as to the advisability of estab quired all the timber holdings in Clat "Yes. sir," said the proprietor bor. In the nine months ending with ators reported. lishing a storage and precooling ex ing and currency announced that It "That's right.” sop county belonging to the Whitney March Portland exported 6,237,541 AbUue with light from her salon had sent to more than 30.000 banks a periment station here this fnll. He Is company, limited. The deal comprises “ Haven't you got one with the holes I bushels of wheat. Portland also and cabins, the Titanic dashed full request for detailed Information on all favorable to such a plan, and It is 11,000 acres of high cist* yellow fir, full o f cheese?"—Louisville Courier- shows a steady gain ln the export of speed to her destruction, according to Journal. phases of their business and their re thought such work will be conducted as well as the company's logging rail four, Its total for the past nine months Ernest Gill, a donkey englneman on lations with other Institutions. here. [ road and camp, among the finest equlp- keiug 543,382 barrels, aa against 416,- the steamship Californian. He said Who fears Is worthy o f calam ity— Mr Steubenrnuch. who waa accom- ! ped ln the northwest. The committee has embraced na- 185 barrel* ln the same time last year. Ren Jons in Increase Your Business U. S. LAUNDRY CO. W hat D oes th e Salary Bag Hold fo r Y O U ? NEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL H. H. Harris, Manager, 409 McKay Bldg,, Portland J
