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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1912)
•PORTLAND, OREGON, AUGUST 31,1912 Vol. II. No V j.iO WEIRD CHARGE MADE WEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST AUTOMOBILE OWNER BY MISTAKE STILL FAILURE A certain Portland man has a SAVE IN NOISE [ habit of tooting the horn on his benzine buggy as he cavorts Price 5 Cents ST. JOHN POLICEMEN PREFER SLUMBERING TO CATCHING YEGGS. I PORTLAND BILLS HIGHER BECAUSE This really happened. A Port WORK IS LIMITED SEE Fitz has gone and moved [ sheriff of Multnomah county, and land policeman, who walks a beat in the far northern section of the that Detective Sergeant Tom 1 guess Fitz will be on the right city, was hailed by the conductor Prominent Printer Explains Why Cheaper Quotations Are of an inbound St. John car the Given Outside. other night, and told that people on the car had seen a burglar he has tackled. As breaking into a house in St. Those of a philosophical nature himself such a general pest right, though I don’t think he everything About a week ago Governor made boss of the Union John as they weer coming in. Not will find food for thought in the should have been sloughed for about the streets that this week West dropped into our fair city, a warrant was sworn out for his bumping a cigar man into a he put that Cigarinakers’ organization on its feeling called upon to fight burg following commentaries upon cer bringing with him a dozen arrest, it being set forth in the wagon, instead of letting him ride feet and made it respected by ev lars, the passengers had done tain local conditions and the high brooms and a couple of press warrant that be had violated a in a taxi. It seems to me that erybody, including big business, nothing but look at the burglar. cost of living. "While the exam agents. Mr. West mentioned quite certain city ordinance, the num any man under arrest ought to lie made the union a square out The patrolman at once called ple cited here deals but with the causually that he was going to ber of which was given. up the police station, and told printing business, similar condi fit, and Fitz made it plain to ev be glad of the seclusion of the “ clean up Portland”. He was The police went out and in due patrol instead of being walked in erybody that a union could be as Sergeant Lee Jenkins about tin- tions prevail in nearly all excited about it, and was go time served the warrant. The with a pair of bracelets on bis useful in a community as a trust, report. Desiring to help out the lines of local industry. all And other as ing to get busy just as soon as man furnished bail, and went bis wrists. police of the northern suburb- these indlstries are necessary to and maybe somewhat more useful. he got his machinery unpacked way, awaiting trial. While he “ Be that as it may, Fitz seems “ When you meet Fitz you’ll Jenkins called up the St. John the existence of Portland’s com and got back from taking a bath was thinking the matter over he to know the job of running the discover that he is one of those headquarters. He had some diffi munity, it woud appear that it in the Pacific. and forceful fellows that culty in raising them, and finally will take more ahan a reduction decided to look up the law on police department a whole lot bet quiet The week has passed. Each day the does a whole lot of thinking and a slepy voice answered over tin- of the tariff and the victory of and then he beat it the papers have found plenty of quick matter, the Democratic party to change very little talking. He is one of phone. for the police station. Once copy in chronicling the doings of there he demanded to know what conditions. In fact, careful con “ There’s a burglar breaking the best listeners in the world, the state executive. But aside he had been arrested for. sideration of the argument set into a house out in your town,” and when he gets through listen from that affairs in Portland The desk sergeant happened to ing he has his mind pretty well said Jenkins, and lie proceeded forth makes a solution seem im- have been going along just about remember made up bow much he ought to to give the St. John guardians of I possible. the case, and told him as before. Some of the militia thta he’d been blowing his horn A business man was complain believe, and how much he can the peace details of tin- report. men have come back from target too much. ing, tbe other day, about the cost “ Aw, stop your kidding,” cast aside as mere hot air. And practice at the forts, and have “ Well, there’s 'nothing about with this once decided, he makes came back over the wire. “ Is of printing in Portland, and men walked about the streets in uni that in the ordinance that I’m ac up his mind quick as to what he • that, all you waked me up for?” tioned in the course of his re form, being joshed by the police cused of violating,” he said. I Jenkins is a good policeman, marks that he could get his busi is going to do. and other people. The Governor The policeman thereupon got j and he just loves to catch bnrg- ness stationery printed more eco “ That’s one reason why 1 think has told District Attorney Cam down the automobile ordinance | lars. so the reply from St. John nomically in Seattle. In the party lie’s going to make a good sheriff. eron that lie is no longer public and read it to him. And he also made him mad. He roared into of which he was a member when I don’t think they’ll be able to prosecutor, and by so doing has told him the number of the ordi the telephone that lie wasn’t fool he made his plaint was one of the put much over on Fitz. I don’t tangled up the work of the courts nance. ing, gave the directions again, largest employing printers of tin- think things will be as easy as and the grand jury. The Gover and then in a fine burst of irony, city. and the modern Gutenberg some people think they are going nor has also appointed somebody “ That may be all right,” said at once took up the defense of his shouted into the phone: to be; in fact, I think the male to do Cameron’s work, and now the prisoner, “ but this warrant business. “ Of course, if you’d rather factors are going to find out that there is every prospect of a nice charges me with violating an al “ You say printing in this city sleep than go out and catch a Fitz will be one of the squarest together different ordinance.” legal battle. is more costly than in Seattle. burglar, why go ahead and sleep. men in office, and that it will bo Walter Evans, republican nom The matter wa. looked up, and But this is Portland Police Head Well, let me tell you something,” next to impossible to fix him. I quarters inee for prosecuting attorney, was it was found that through a mis- and if that’s the said the local printer. “ You can know a man who has been stick offered Cameron’s job by the tatke the man had been charged ter than some others that might ing around Fitz lately just like way you talking, feel about I want to always do work more cheaply for Governor, and after reading up with violating the section of the be mentioned. You don’t hear of a brother, and he thinks that tell you that we don’t it, think much a client living outside your homo the law on the case he told the building code that refers to con Fitz knuckling under to anybody. when Fitz is sheriff he can do of you. Good bye.” market than you can for the lo Executive that he couldn’t take crete walls. In making out the If Fitz thinks a thing ought to be about as he pleases. But take News dispatches from St. John cal consumer, and I’ll show you the job. Mr. Evans did not be warrant the wrong ordinance done, he is pretty sure to put all it from me, this fellow is going have not recorded the recent cap why. Take my business. There lieve the “ removal” of Cameron number had been put down. The his energy into getting it done, to wake up awful sudden the first ture of any burglars, so it is are a certain number of definitely was legal, and so he found his man in question is going to plead and surmised at Portland Headquar established printers in Portland. he tries to do anything that ters getting it done right. Fitz time business in the federal courts too not guilty to the charge, and law has had that tin- brave officer who Let us say, just for illustration, isn't right, and Fitz will lie the the habit most of his life “ pressing" to be left just at this yers say he will be freed. But it of getting what he wants. Just alarm clock that will wake him answered the phone decided to go that there are twelve shops. Each time. By so doing, Mr. Evans is a sure bet that the next time now he wants to be the nekt up.” back to sleep and let the burglar of these shops has certain set ex has saved himself from getting in an ordinance number is written penses that have to be met every burgle undisturbed. a ridiculous position, and has so on a warrant, somebody will be year- wages, cost of material, up strengthened his position before careful to get the right number keep charges and new machinery. the voters. what this cost is going down. Governor Wilson Officially- GREAT NORTHERN to We be, know Tom Word, one time sheriff of for we have been meeting Notified of His Nomination Multnomah county, has also de of years. TAILORS OUTFIT it “ for Also a number clined to pull the Governor’s NEW RAILROAD there is just about so chestnuts out of the fire, and lias IS n b f l R l PRfiRF 1,1,1,11 ¡»riming to In- done IU i U I l N l U I I1UUI. 1 |and ,.v,.ry year. There in Port are gracefully sidestepped the ap LINE TO NORTH pointment of “ special agent”. about so many thousund letter Maybe there is nothing in it, heads wanted, so many bills, so Mr. Word, though the democratic NOW UNDER WAY hut nevertheless some very odd many cards, and so much general nominee for sheriff, has decided Announcement this week of the lliings have come out of certain job and display work. We know that he doesn’t want to jeopard formation of a railroad company offices on the fourth floor of the about how much of this there is. ize his chances of election by get to build and operate a line from Swetland building. Take room for we have been in business a ting tangled up in the great wild Vancouver. Wash., to Tacoma, 405, for instance. It first leaped long time. And we know what West show. Mr. Fitzgerald, who has been heralded in some of the into fame when a discharged em the yearly increase is going to be. is Word’s opponent on the repub daily papers as the forerunner of lican ticket, has also decided to the Milwaukee ployee of “ IJapgoods” of New This work has got to pay us our road’s entrance to York started a high-class em shop expenses, and it, has got to leave well enough alone, and to Portland. Every and then ployment agency there; an em-1 give ns our own profit, for we fail to hear the Governor’s ap some scribe whose now of peals for somebody to go out and coast railroad affairs knowledge ployment agency thta brought in I m-d the profit os that we can live, is but slight arrest somebody. the promoter a lot of money, but That’s what we’re in business for. brings the Milwaukee to Port While all these things have “ land” that failed to give work to those’ “ Knowing how ninny printers in spite of the repeated been happening, Governor West statements who were duped by the beautiful | I In-re are, and how much work President Barl literature sent out. has moved into Portland, estab ing, of the from ! each of us is liable to get, we Chicago, Milwaukee lished his stenographer near the Puget Sound, This same room is now occu ! realize that there is a certain that his line has pied, along with others, by the adjutant general’s office, and has! no intention of invading ! price which we must charge in the Ore himself begun to peer about at gon field. Great Northern Tailors Combine, ! order to meet our expenses. We •to.'i, 404 and 405 Swetland build have to take in this much money the “ shocking” conditions in the1 The new line from Vancouver ing. The walls of the rooms are ! to pay our employees, and these city. It is reported he has read i to Tacoma is not backed by the ■ i 4'-* * - nicely decorated by pages torn ! employees an- Portland people, the vice commission’s report, and Milwaukee line, as time will show. east it aside. His latest move It is. instead, backed by the from fashion magazines, and here depending on us for their living! ÿ * T and there a small table and a It we cut our prices below this has been to get real well ac Stone & Webster interests, who chair or two may la- seen by those rate, we either lose money, or we quainted with the grand jury, some four years ago planned an i ;*J I-P t»! I!L I -I who enter. These details are men must eut down our expenses to and to urge that body to look electric internrban line from tioned in passing, and merely as meet the lower income; nod the into the conduct of Mr. Cameron. Wash., to Vancouver, I M . s t L ; ? » an introduction. On the streets it is reported that Vancouver. only way to do this is to dis B. C. Sections of this line from an attempt will be made to tan Tacoma, Last week there appeared in charge men. So to keep these Seattle to Ever the residence districts of the city gle Cameron up with the ancient ett have through Cortland men on the job, and to already been built and j a number of young men, who May Real mystery. pay them and ourselves, we have in opreation, and the linei went from house t. i < house dis In the meantime the police and are to get a certain amount for our from Everett to Bellingham is tributing cards. These cards had Sheriff Stevens have been doing now Cortland printing. under course of construction. \ spaces on them for names and ad their work. Nightly there ha^ In this “ But when we figure on a job last stretch of line a log-! dresses and on the end of each been brought to the police sta ging road from out of town we are in an north from i card was a stub bearing a num tion the usual grist of crooks Everett to St. running altogether different position. In has already ber. Arriving at a house the and lawbreakers of varied kinds. been aekuired. Marys stead of figuring this job on our track-laying canvasser told “ the lady of the local fixed expenses, we can fig Mr. Stevens has continued to and grading is and proceeding be house” that lie was collecting ad urc it on the cost of production keep a watchful eye upon the tween Bellingham and Mount dresses, and was going to send alone, for it is extra work that roadhouses, as was demonstrated Vernon. out advertising matter. The we had not taken into consider the other night when he landed The link in the system from name of “ the lady of the house” ation. So when we get a job from down on the Linnton road only Tacoma Photo* copyright. 1912. by American P ro * Association. Wash., once obtained, the canvasser Seattle, the chances are we can about two seconds behind the po will be lull to it Vancouver. the guidance HE “ I.lttle W hite House" ground* at Sea U lrt never before were would tear off the numbered stub do it for perhaps five or ten per lice patrol when a fight broke out of the huge under tram pled by such * crowd ** th at which gathered to make a Demo and leave it. saving that it might cent less than Cortland prices, in a party of joy riders. The Corporation, the Washington-Oregon cratic holiday of the "notiflcatlou" of Governor Wilson. It I* esti win a prize. greatset electric Governor has written Sheriff Ste concern in the Northwest. and still make a profit on it m ated th at 5.000 people attended Uie ceremonies, and It la unofficially This Some three or four days later vens a number of letters, but concern has already purchased That is why I say that a man can reported th at the condition of the governor’s right hand and arm the next two day they have been somewhat out of the internrban road between Cen- waa auch aa to make him believe that he had shaken bitnda with all of them. other young men, nicely and always make better terms for an date, for most of the information tralia and Chehalis. and will use A com m ittee of nfty-tw o member», on# from each atate. the D istrict of Co neatly dressed, followed the first outside market than he can for contained in them has already it as a part of the southern sec lumbia, Alaska. H aw aii and Porto Rico, w aited upon tbe candidate, and Sen canvassers about. They called at his home market. He has got to been taken cognizance of by the tion of the line. A branch will ator Klect out# Jam es, (linked by senators, congressm en and governors, did the houses where the numbered make a certain profit otu of his the talking up to the point when the governor read hla speech of acceptance. had been left, and gave home market, which is his only sheriff. be built from the main line Mr*. Wilson and her daughters were Interested wltneases of the form alities, stubs glad tiilings. The “ lady of the sure resource, in order that he In short. Governor West seems also the Cowlitz valley—in fact, which were enlivened by the presence of a large num ber of prom inent Demo- house” was extremely fortunate, can make his annual expenses. to be somewhat up against it for up crate, Including Governor M arshall, the vice presidential candidate, who, In is already well under | the photograph, la aaen standing at Governor W ilson's left. they said. There had been a Once assured of this, we can fi(f. material for a really good grand- this branch (Continued on page 4.) (Continued on page 4.» (Continued on page 4.) (Continued on page 4.) Plenty of Excitement, But No about the city streets. Enthusi Kay be reduced to the ranks end of things when all the votes uniform,” said the Man on | are counted. And Fitz ought to astic honking of an automobile and Great Change Noticed in Corner. “ Well, I guess Tom make a god sheriff at that. siren is a violation of one of the the City's Morality. city ordinances. This man has Kay had it coming to him all “ Fitz has made good at about J ß mm ' . m -* •' ■ 7 5 y*0k-y-j T I