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A PECULIAR STRIKE.
One o f the most peculiar strikes in history has been in progress
at Kansas City.
As in Portland, the streetcar company has not allowed smoking
on ears. An ordinance permitting smoking was passed by the city
council and approved by the mayor.
Hut the streetcar company resisted the city statute. Even when
a single passenger attempted to smoke, the car was stopped. The anti­
smoking part of the public stood by the company, and the smokers
were as pronounced and vigorous on the other side.
Rioting became general. Women slapped the faces of smokers.
Men in a hurry, who found cars refusing to move because men aboard
were smoking, pitched the smokers into the street.
Conductors and motormen received orders to let a car stand as
long as anyone in it was smoking. The company took a straw vote
o f the public on the new ordinance and the vote against smoking was
two to one.
There was widespread rioting all of one day and night, follow­
ing a week of disorder. Men and boys, supplied with free cigars
boarded cars, and as a result the entire car system of the city was
tied up. It was not uncommon for forty or fifty ears to stand still
while one smoker puffed complacently at bis cigar. At one time, the
company ordered all gates closed and the ears sent to the sidetracks
and barns. Mail cars suffered with the rest, seven of them being tied
iif> at one time by a single smoker.
The strange feature is that a city administration would seek to
interfere with a traction company in a policy approved by the best
citizenship and all tin1 rules of public order. If, for the comfort of
others, a smoker eanot refrain from smoking for the brief period of a
streetcar ride to or from business, he ought to walk, buy an automo­
bile. or borrow a saddle mule.
ENGINEERING ADVISER.
DRAFTING
AND BLUE PRINTING.
M ay
C le a n
up
Road
H o use s.
Salem.—Declaring his Intention to
call out a carefully selected squad of
Oregon militia to wage a campaign
against Immoral roadhouses In Mult­
nomah county, Governor*West made
a statement that Is expected to be like
the explosion of a bombshell In the
camp of law violators.
" I intend to see that road houses
are quickly, effectively and consist­
ently cleaned out,” said Governor
West, “ not only In Multnomah county,
but In every part of the state where
officials have failed to enforce the
law.”
HELP THE ELKS
MAYOR RUSHLIGHT A CHIEF
(Continued from Png» 1.)
suiti charge of accepting a brilli»,
and that he, the said Frank T.
Collier, in his offleial capacity,
would then ami thciji- permit and
suffer said Clifford \V. Maddux
J. H. MORTON, M. E.
IVDUSTUAL BNGINKXft.
Designs Complete Industrial Plants or any
component part, mechanical or structural.
Old Plants Modernized.
Drafting.
Phone Main 1622.
924 Chamber o f Commerce, Portland, Oregon.
ARTHUR D. MONTEITH
CIVIL AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEER.
General Surveying, Landscape Engineering,
Construction Superintendent, Reports and
Estimates on Projects, Water Supply, Irri­
gation, Sewerage.
Phones:
Main 5645.
Res. Phone E 6185.
Lumber Exchange Building.
Phone East 63.
U. S. LAUNDRY CO.
180 GRAND AVE., COR. EAST YAMHILL,
Portland, Oregon.
Snowy White Dainty Clothes
Are Troy Laundered Clothes
POTATO DISEASE APPEARING
I f we could take you through ôur modern
plant, flooded with sunshine and scrupulously
clean, with its immaculately dressed workers;
if 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. *
C a re in S e le c tin g P e rfe c t S e e d M e th o d
of C o m b a t in g Pest.
Corvallis.— Many potato fields are
reported attacked by a disease known
as blackleg or blackstem. F. D. Bail­
ey of the crop pest force of the Ore­
gon Agricultural college says of the
pest:
"A disease of the Irish potato ap­
pearing in Oregon at this season, con­
cerning which the college has received
many Inquiries, is that known as
® 1211. b y A m erican Press A ssociation.
blackstem or blackleg. It is caused by
bacteria, Hnd has been known In the
P r e s id e n t Taft.
east for several years.
"Both stem and tubers are attacked, ed without great difficulty, the leaders
and while no severe epidemic of rot In control of the convention decided
in the field or In Btorage has been to give him ns a running mate his com­
traced to this disease. It Is quite evi­ panion on the ticket In 1908.
dent that the loss of scattering plants ; Owing to the dispute over the con­
is sufficient to reduce the yields ma­ tested delegates permanent organiza­
tion was not effected until the last
terially.
"The organisms causing the disease day of the convention, when the tem
are carried over winter In decaying, porary organization was made per­
bruised or cracked tubers. When such j manent.
potatoes are cut for seed with other I “ My first act as permanent chair­
clean ones It Is evident that the bac- { man of this convention," said Senator
Root, stepping forward amid a burst
tcrla will be well distributed.
"If care I b taken, however, to select of cheering, “ Is to ask unanimous con­
perfect tubers only for seed, the dls- j sent thnt our republican brother—Hen­
ry J. Allen, of Kansas, be permitted to
ease will soon disappear."
make a statement.”
Q u a il for K la m a t h H e ld Up.
A lle n G iv e s R o o se v e lt S tate m e nt.
Klamath Falls.— Sportsmen who
Allen announced that he would read
have been awaiting the arrival of a a statement Just placed In his hands
consignment of quail ordered by the by Colonel Roosevelt.
state fish and game commission to
“ We do not bolt," concluded Allen,
stock Klamath county are doomed to “we merely Insist that you and not
disappointment.
we are making the record. And we re­
The shipment was ordered In Mis­ fuse to be bound by it. We have
souri. but owing to an Infection dis­ pleaded with you 10 days. We have
covered after the birds were crated fought with you five days. We fight
the state game authorities of Missouri no more. We plead no longer. We
would not allow them to be shipped \
out of the state.
It is Hu- boast of Health Officer Wheeler that Portland is burning
garbage at less expense than any other city about which he has in­
formation. This is equivalent to saying that the expense is less than
in any other city in the country; and the fact is one which should
cause the practical Portlander to “ point with pride.”
I'pon this statement and its general acceptance, the thought oc­
curs in the form of a query: Is the garbage problem in this city en­
tirely solved?
The answer to that query must be negative. The plant we have
is a good one without question. It would appear too, that the man­
agement of it is efficient in every detail; and that so far as this plant
is expected to serve the city, we have nothing further to expect or
desire. Hut with tin* city ’s continued growth how far will it serve?
Obviously the conclusion will lie forced upon any citizen who gives
attention to the subject matter, that other plans must lie built as the
city develops; and even now it is an open question if the city is prop­
erly served with this incinerator, as we consider the cost of hauling
from remote sections of the city, which the householders in those sec­
tions have to pay.
It is the statement of the Health Officer as it is matter of common
knowledge to those who are interested in practical civics, that then
are cities which reduce their refuse to products which have commer­
cial value; mid that this process in a measure or wholly pays the ex­
pense of incineration. Provided it is practical this is the last word
in garbage disposai so far ns the city is eoneerned. The point that
should interest the people of Portland is, shall its practicability be in­
vestigated and determined as a matter of local application 1
Again there is the matter of garbage collection which needs to he
discussed to some practical end. In that branch o f the business we an
at odds and ends in this city. The collection o f garbage is conducted
neither in a sanitary manner now nor with economy to the people who
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have to pay for it. As we consider all these things there is but ont
conclusion possible, and that is the garbage problem is so far as this C o n tr a c t o rs A r e at N o rt h B e n d A w a it
in g Eq u ip m e n t.
city is interested is not solved. It is still open and it demands current
North Bend.—-Assurance that con- I
and persistent attention.
structlou work at this end of the line j
Help the Elks. They do not want your money in this instance;
hut they want living accommodations for the visitors they are about
to bring to this city, deport has it that there will he about 200.000
of those visitors, which will mean a temporary invasion equal, al­
most, to the population o f the city. It is the desire of the Elks and of
everyone else t lia I even man. woman and child id' that 200,000 shall
experience nothing lint enjoyment while here. An essential to that is
provision for comfortable accommodations.
Every citizen who can co-operate in a helpful way should remem­
ber that the 200,000 visitors, when they depart from here, will he 2(H).-
ooo advertising agents for Portland. The maintenance of Portland's
reputation tor hospitality is a consideration quite clearly involved.
This is a call for the true sort of hospitality the hospitality of the
home, the personal effort of the citizen to extend welcome and good
cheer.
Men and women of all reputable classes in this city were deoplv
interested in the promotion effort of the local lodge of Elks which
brought the meeting of the dram! Lodge within our gates. My liberal­
ity in sentiment and ill the contribution of money, the people of Port­
land have assured the local Elks that the one thought id’ the commun­
ity is to make the drain! Lodge session in Portland the most magni­
ficent and enjoyable affair ever held in the history o f Elkdoin. If the
promise implied in all that is to he made good, the people o f this city
have a further duty to perform. They must respond to the calls the
Elks have issued. They must proffer accommodations for stray mem­
bers o f the visiting herds, and there will he thousands o f such to be
looked after. Maintain the good name of the city. Help the Elks.
of Portland’s Leading Business Firms.
Chicago.— For president. William
Howard Taft. For vice president,
Telephone Marshall 1554.
James Schoolcraft Sherman.
824
Chamber
of Commerce, Portland, Oregon.
These are the standard bearers
for the 1912 campaign chosen on first
ballots by the fifteenth republican na-
1 tional convention.
C. J. WILSON
President Taft received 561 of the
1078 votes in the convention, or 21
COMMERCIAL ARTIST AND
more than a majority.
CARTOONIST.
The result of the ballot was: Taft
561, Roosevelt 107, La Follette 41, 348 Market Street,
Portland, Oregon.
Cummins 17, Hughes 2, absent 6. pres­
ent. but not voting, 344.
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The result of the ballot for vice
president was: Sherman 597, Borah I n c r e a s e Y O U T B u s i n e s s
21, Merrlam 20, Hadley 14, Beveridge
by placing your advertisement in
G re e n A p h is D e st ro y « V e t c h F ie ld s 2, Gillett 1, absent 71, present, but not
THE TIMES.
Monmouth.— In the vicinity of Buena voting, 352.
Vista and other parts of the Luckla- j
Write for our advertising rates.
T a f t 's N o m in a tio n C e rtain.
mute river valley, south of this city,
When It became absolutely certain
several fields of vetch have been to- j
early that Mr. Taft would be nominat-
tally destroyed by the green aphis. It i
is not known how rapidly the pests
will spread over the fields. So far. no
crops have been harmed outside of
those in the Luckiamute valley. The
aphis has not visited this section of
the country since the season of 1910,
when the clover crop was entirely
ruined.
M ilitia
Saturday, June 29, 1912
IS THE GARBAGE PROBLEM SOLVED?
D IR E C TO R Y
Events Occurring Throughout Vice-President Sherman is Re-
the State Curing the Past
nominated: Roosevelt Men
ORRIN E. STANLEY
Week.
Refuse to Vote.
M. Am. Soc. C. E.
"«•A FEARLESS EXPONENT OF INDUSTRIAL PEACE
*
OREGON NEWS NOTES TAFT IS NOMINATED
OF GENERAL INTEREST
ON FIRST BALLOT
on the Eugene-Coos Hay extension of j
the Southern Pacific will begin as i
quickly us machinery can be brought :
here la given by representatives of |
McArthur brothers and Perk company
who hold the contract for building the
railroad.
It Is stated that the contractors w ill
begin work at this end of the line as
soon as machinery can be brought
here. No regular subcontracts have
been let, but a part of the work will
V ic e -P re s id e n t S h e rm a n .
likely he done by other contractors, |
thus relieving the main contractors of shall sit In protest and the people w h o
a part of the work. Within 30 days. sent us here shall Judge us."
It Is stated, the building of every mile
Ex-Vice President Fairbanks pre­
of the track will be arranged for. The sented the platform. Delegate Cowen,
equipment which will be used Is now of Wisconsin, offered the lei Follette
In Arlxona and Its shipment to this ; platform as a substitute, but It was
point will be started at once. It Is voted down.
the Intention of the contractors to
The final vote on platform gave Taft
make North Bend the distributing 666 ayes, Roosevelt n silent strength
point.
of 843. 53 noes and 16 absences.
C o lle ge U n io n Planned.
Portland.—Union of Philomath cob
•ge and Dallas colleges may result
from the action taken by the Oregon
Conference of the United Brethren
Church. In session at the First Church
here. Bishop Bell, Professor Drury
and S. M Jones were appointed com-
mlssloners to confer with like com­
missioners from the United Evangeli­
cal Church and the Evangelical Asso­
ciation and seek a basis on which the
two Institutions may be united.
ami Frank lìciti to hi* dismissed ns
|>cr suit! intliotnit'llt without a L in n C o u n ty Rock C r u s h e r Blown U p
trial ami without process of law.
Lebanon.—One of the Linn county
contrary to the statute in such rock crushers was blown up b y dyna-
cases made ami provided, against mit» on th» county rond about savon
the peace and dignity of the State mil«» vast of Lobnuon to road district
of Oregon. ”
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O re g o n S p lit s on P latform .
On the roll call on adoption of the
platform, the Oregon delegation cast
*°ur » frlrTnntlve votes, namely: Smith,
Bynon. Carey and Campbell. McCus
j ker and Hall voted no. Boyd and
! Swift were absent, while Coe and Ask
i erson. though present, refused to vote.
Washington voted 14 solid for the
platform. The Idaho delegation went
I on record as opposed to the Roose-
velt bolt program
Idaho cast eight
j votes for the platform
After the platform was adopted Sen-
1 R*or Root wae made chairman of the
¡committee to notify President Taft
°? il8 n o m in a tio n Thomas H. Devine.
national committeeman from Colorado,
was named chairman of the commute«
to notify Vtoo Prooilont tiheruaa.
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