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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1912)
TH E TIM ES THE TIMES Published «very Saturday by THE T IM E S COM PANY, Incorporated »t 212 First Street, Portland, Oregon, i'hones Mein 5637; A 2686. TH E TIM E S ii not responsible for, m y opinions expressed by correspondents appearing in its eolumns. Entered in Poetoffiee st Portland, Orefon, ss seeond-clsse matter. A FEARLESS EX PO N E NT OF IN D U S T R IA L PEACE SUBSCRIPTION HATES—»2.50 per year, in advance. AD V E R TIS IN G R ATE S made known upon application. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Events D IR E C T O R Y FLAG DAY JUNE 14 of Portland’ s Leading Business Firms. Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. C o n tr a c t o rs A r e M. Am This measure by the way, was overwhelmingly carried on the 28th. Whether or not the Los Angeles News justifies Professor Ross’ ideal o f an endowed general newspaper, it justifies the municipal experi ment in Los Angeles sufficiently to make it the duty o f other muni cipalities to take the question o f “ follow ing suit” into early and seri ous consideration. B U ILD DOCKS NOW . Preliminary stages in acquisition o f public docks for the City of Portland have reached a definite stage at last, if perfecting title does not develop a prolonged legal battle. Members of the Commission have proceeded deliberately, far more so than some enthusiastic advocates of public docks desired. A construction period should be near now, that the docks planned may be available for the heavy water traffic requirements expected soon to be a feature of Port land 's commerce. Steamship men have commented in the past that we had no facil ities fo r handling the largest craft. Because of the inadequacy in this line, the managers of one large Portland business house says that for years he had in-bound Oriental cargo luuded at Tacoma and shipped here by rail, finding that cheaper than trying to dock for the unloading o f miscellaneous cargo in Portland. Such criticism as this hurts the port. Vigilant public spirit should hav'e learned this fact long ago and taken steps to remedy it before the present public dock movement began. Shipping men must commend the effort being made by the en gineers of the Dock Commission to adopt the most modern loading and unloading apparatus. In the handling o f wheat, Portland has no doubt been fairly abreast competitive improvements. But for gen eral cargo it is clear that the privately-owned docks have given little heed to labor-saving appliances which other great ports of the world use. Pacific Coast wages are high, and if we fall behind in use of mechanical equipment here the result w ill be against the business of the port. Let us hope the condemnation proceedings will bring no cause for material delay in construction work. We need modern docks for large craft and we need a system which will study interchange of traffic at the minimum cost rather than a condition which studies only embarussment o f a competitor. Public docks should be the first step in the new navigation period, when it should be impossible for the Americau-IIawaiian, Waterhouse or other interests to declare that they could not handle their largest crafts here. An all-inclusive bill, to be denominated, “ The Ocean Safety Act o f 1912,” designed to cover all the navigation lessons drawn from the Titanic disaster, was introduced in the Senate on the 3rd by Sen ator Knute Nelson, o f Minnesota, chairman o f the Commerce Com mittee. This bill included stringent regulations for better wireless equipment, continuously operated, on ocean and great lakes vessels carrying fifty or more persons, as provided in a bill which passed the I louse on the ,'lrd, and almost identical with a bill already passed by the Senate. This wireless section vests control of the apparatus in the master of the vessel, mid, to avoid the wireless communication being shut off by failure o f the vessel's engines, requires a powerful auxiliary power supply that can comminute 1(H) miles at all times. The Nelson hill would recognize foreign steamship laws whenever they arc as effective as American laws and regulations. The bill also would equip every passenger craft leaving an American port with sufficient lifeboats to accommodate everybody aboard together with other safety equipment, and would create a commission o f five per sons to investigate here and Abroad merchant marine construction. It would require rigid port examination and boat drills, define qual ifications of seamen, penalize failure to assist any person in distress at sea, and make criminally liable any master, managing owner, steamship director or principal resident agent o f a foreign steamship for sending from an American port a vessel so unseaworthy as to en danger life. H it s 6 at K la m a t h F a lls. Klamath Falls.— Six persons were •truck by lightning here In a storm which preceded the most severe down pour of hail ever recorded in Klamath county. None of those struck w ill die, It Is thought, although one, a baby In irms, Is in a critical condition. Three nches of hail fell In less than half an dour. Phone Main 1622. 924 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon. CARTOONIST. W e it e r n M e n P r o m in e n t A m o n g A t h letes to go to S to c k h o lm . UNDER FOOT OF ASH L ig h t n in g S t r ik e s G ra n ts P a ss. fH E M ARKETS. P o rtla n d . Wheat— Track prices: Club, 94c: blueatem. 98c; red Russian. 94c. Oats— No. 1 \Yh1te, $40 per ton. Hay— Timothy. $17; alfalfa, $12. Butter— Creamery, 27c. Eggs— Ranch, 20c. Hops— 1911 .crop, 38c; contracts, 26c. W ool— Eastern Oregon, 18c: W il lamette valley, 22c. Seattle. D ism isse d . St. Helene.—The Jury In the case of ohn Arthur Pender, charged with the nurder of Mrs Palsy Wehrman. was ttsmlssed by Judge Campbell without eachtng a verdict Phones: Portland, Oregon. Main 5fi45. Res. Phone E 6185. Lumber Exchange Building. OLYMPIC TEAM SELECTED tow n T are buried Pender Ju ry C IV IL AND H Y D R A U LIC ENGINEER. __ General Surveying, Landscape Engineering, Construction Superintendence, Reports and Estimatea on Projects, Water Supply, Irri gation, Sewerage. COMMERCIAL A R T IS T AND Wheat— Bluestem. 96c; Club, 92c; red Russian, 9lc. Oats— $39 per ton. Butter—Creamery, 27c. Eggs— 21c. Hay— Timothy. 117 per ton. Phone East 63. Increase Your Business by placing your advertisement in U. S. LAUNDRY CO. TH E TIMES. 180 GRAND AVE., COR. EAST Y A M H IL L , Portland, Oregon. Write for our advertising rates. Snowy White Dainty Clothes Are Troy Laundered Clothes »1,000,000. B lu e S k y L a w In O regon. Marshfield.— What It is believed will Salem, Or.— Complete and corrected be one of the greatest water powers In drafts of the proposed "blue sky law" Oregon Is to be developed in Coos have been completed by Secretary Ol- county by Oregon capital at the cost cott, the bill has gone into the hands of about $1,000,000. The plan Is to of the printer and circulation of peti build an enormous electric plant, the tions will start soon for the purpose of electricity to be generated by water placing the measure In the ballot to go power and to supply all of the towns before the people in November. of the county and rural and logging districts. The matter has been under G re at T a c o m a L u m b e r P la n t Burne d. consideration for some time and the Tacoma.— Mill " A ’1 of the SL Paul men Interested before leaving this city '& Tacoma Lumber company on the announced that they were going ahead tide flats, built In 1888, and four lum with the big project at once. ber sheds containing several million M. J. Anderson, of Grants Pass, pro feet of lumber, was destroyed by fire moted the plan. The water power In with an estimated loss of $500,000. question is on the south fork of the Coqullle river, south of Myrtle Point. The water right would develop 30,000 horsepower and under certain condl- :ions of Improvements possibly as high is 50,000 horsepower. The plan Is to develop 20,000 horsepower, first mak ing two units of 6000 horsepower each. Kodiak, Alaska.— Kodiak and Woody j Island villages are burled under a foot | B ig C o n tra c t Secured. of ashes as a result of the eruption of Hood River.— L. G. W estfall has se- Katmai volcano beginning Thursday :ured a contract from the Northwest afternoon and lasting 48 hours. ern Electric company, which has be- No lives were lost here, but many ?un the construction of a huge dam on other settlements nearer the volcano the White Salmon river. Just opposite must have suffered Indescribably. this city, to saw the 3,000,000 feet of On some parts of the island the timbers to be UBed in the building of ashes are J0 feet deep. Vegetation the dam. and animal life have been killed and the wireless station at Kodiak destroy C ro w n M il ls B u rn , L o s s is $100.000. ed. Portland.— As a climax to a series Governor Clark has cabled to Wash jf fires, In which one ended fatally, the ington asking $100,000 from congress three upper floors ot the Crown mills, for relief purposes In the stricken dis ’oot of Petttgrove street, and owned trict. t>y Balfour, Guthrie & Co., were gutted iy fire. The damage Is estimated at M o u n t H a y e s M a y be A ctive . »76.000 to $100,000. Fairbanks, Alaska.— Persons arriv ing from the south bring reports of heavy cannonading In the foothills CURTIS SUCCEEDS JAMES i t the Alaska range, and it is suppos 3 o v e rn o r A p p o in t s H im S u p e rin te n d ed th.'t volcanoes are in action. The ent of State P rison . sounds come from the vicinity of Mt. Salem.— Confronted with a refusal Hayes. Ashes are falling here, and jy the members of the state purchas- the sun is obscured. ng board to approve certain bills with -elation to the penitentiary unless cer- C o n v ic t s ' S t r ik e R e s u lt s Fa tally. dfled by the superintendent as requir- San Quentin, Cal.— L ive steam was id by law, Governor West appointed turned into the kitchen of San Quen A’ardon F. H. C’ urtls to the superln- tin penitentiary before a malignant endency of the state prison, and prisoners' "grub strike" that was start- j tcarce had his appointment been made ed In the dining-room was quelled. >ut before he elevated John J. Bengen, One rioter was shot dead in a door issistant warden, to the wardenship. way of the dining room by an outside le announced that there would be no guard on the prison wall, and one was urther changes. wounded. The move of placing Curtis nt the lead of the Institution came following C h in e se P re s id e n t In D a ily Pe ril. . disagreement on the board as to Peking.— Hardly a day passes with vhether certain vouchers should be out the discovery of some plot to as >ald because they lacked the stgna- sassinate President Yuan Shi Kal, who ure of an actual superintendent, War- is equally hated by the supporters of len Curtis holding both positions, be- the fallen Manchus and by the repub ng superintendent under the title of licans who believe that he contem ictlng superintendent. plates establishing a monarchy or dic tatorship of his own. F in e S lo c k is E x h ib ite d at U n io n . ARTHUR D. MONTEITH C. J. WILSON C o o s C o u n t y W a t e r P o w e r M a y Coat Union.—The fourth annual livestock how closed here with a good attend- •nce and a large entry list. Stockmen rom a radius of many miles had their As no one could be found to risk his money in a moving picture Vst animals entered. show- in the small town o f Haven, in Reno County, Kansas, and as nevertheless every one in the place enjoyed moving pictures, a “ show” has been started on the municipal ownership plan, which has proved a great success. When the receipts are larger than the ex penses, free shows are given. Telephone M&rshxll 1554. J _________ New York.— The American Olympic selection committee spent the entire day In picking the athletes who will represent the United States In the Olympic games at Stockholm. From the 1000 entries in each event only those who had shown the best N e w T e m p le Is D edicated. Corvallis.— Over 400 visiting mem performances were selected. In addi bers of the order assisted in the dedi tion there was a supplementary list cation of the new Masonic Temple arranged, but the men mentioned will have to pay their own expenses. here. Western athlete«, headed by Horlne, The new building was recently com pleted, at a cost of $50,000, and occu the sensational high jumper, and Rose, pies 100 feet square In the business champion shot putter, play a promin ent part in the Olympic nominations. section. The westerners consist of Horlne, Bellah, Courtney, Gerhardt, Edmuna- GREAT PROJECT PLANNED son, McClure, Beeson, Hawkins, K el ley, Allen, Donahue and Rose. Grants Pass.—The transformer louse of the local light and power ompany was struck by lightning and he city Is without electric light or lower. Three of the six mnin trans orniers were burned out and the build- ng and switchboards wrecked. ENGINEER. Design« Complete Industrial Plants or any component part, mechanical or structural. Old Plants Modernized. Drafting. 824 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon 348 Market Street, L ig h t n in g IN D U S T R IA L Soc. C. E ENGINEERING ADVISER DRAFTING AND BLUE PR IN TIN G . Blam ed. Medford.— The coroner's Jury, on the lynamlte explosion which resulted In :he death of five men at the Jackson- Saturday,June 15, 1912 rUle stone quarry brought in a verdict lite r 30 minutes' deliberation of crlm- nal negligence on the part of the con A M U N IC IP A L N E W S PA PE R . tactors, Twohy Brothers, of Spokane. June 14, 1912, la the one hund re d The Los Angeles “ Municipal New s” is demonstrating the feasibil It was found that the cause of the ex and th irty-fifth a n n iv e r s a r y of the ity o f “ a newspaper owned by the people.” This paper is owned by plosion was tamping powder with an ad op tion by c o n g r e s s of the S t a r s and the City o f Los Angeles, it is published by the City of Los Angeles, it iron drill. S tr ip e s as the n a tio n a l em blem . is edited officially by public servants o f the City o f Los Angeles, it sells for one cent a copy, and it is not a mere city record, but is a genuine city newspaper. Taking for its motto, “ City business is your business,” it keeps the public informed, in interesting journalistic style, of what they need to know and want to know. There is no suppression or discoloration, nor yet any editorial one-sidedness. So far as news is concerned, the facts are presented intelligently and fa irly ; so fa r as opinions are concerned, every side o f a question is given its hearing, and every local political party has accorded it editorial space for its own authorized editorial writer. The policy of this paper was well illustrated in the issue of May 22nd, in connec tion with a pending election on six initiative and referendum ques tions to be voted upon the follow ing week. Under large and lucid headlines, each was succinctly stated and explained in good newspa per type after this manner: “ The fourth question is on the ballot because the Los Angeles Railway and the Pacific Electric Railway procured a referendum on it. They oppose it because it seeks to investigate their books and accounts, appraise their physical property and fix and regulate rates. The ordinance was proposed by the Municipal League, but the only argument on the question sent out with the sample ballots is one against the measure, in red ink, by the traction companies and bear ing their signatures.” J. H. MORTON, M. E. ORRIN E. STANLEY I f we could take you through our modern plant, flooded with sunshine and scrupulously clean, with its immaculately dressed workers; i f we could show you how thoroughly each gar ment is laundered and inspectedour close atten tion to the small details that really make the laundered garment and some of the refreshing ly white, snowy clothes that leave this laundry — you would not hesitate long in sending your clothes here. A single trial will prove a revelation in how clothes really should be laundered. 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