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Newspaper Page Text- ' - r . ( . ' ' ,.t M- . OREGON'S LEADING EXPERTS ON DAIRYING AND HOG RAISING WILL VISif DOUGLAS COUNTY ON THE DEMONSTRATION TRAIN, FEB. JO 5, 0 aWMLM UXJXTI ROSEBURG REIEW sledai road to U tout. also mm PmUU Highway; totrte Ua Stanch th oaty, maw eannarUa, term ea-oparatioa lor rII, YOLCMK XYI. ROSBflURQ, OREGON, FRIDAY KVKMNti, JAM'AllY 30, 101 . . Mo. vn. Wk LEGISIATDRE? Kwese is ' to ks Started Looking Akoltoat MISSION fORM FOR STATE hrimi Eut Sfc lutes la's CM Uk Mtetkf fir ft. II, mt Safe Oil fifltwis? Letter The question la repeatedly being asked by cltliens ail over Oregon, "Why a State Legislature?" Take the last Legislature, with Its political machines; with the corporation and other big business lobbies, blocking really needful and meritorious legis lation; yet prompting and causing other big business and special Inter est and special privilege legislation to be passed, which Is really a detri ment to the farmers, laborers and people-at-large. We should have less legislation. We should have far less freak legis lation. Under the present system treat floods of unnecessary measures clog and cloud every session of our State Legislature, and the question, "Why a Btate Legislature?" will not down. What's the answer? Many well Informed cltliens say the an swer la "Commission form of govern ment for the state." Many citizens who believe In progress in govern ment, advocate the abolishment of the State Senate as a first step; others advocate going to a complete commission form for the state, abol ishing both houses of the State Legis lature, and substituting Instead a commission or body of nine state commissioners (elected troni and rep resenting the various state districts to be formed), besides the Governor, Secretary of State and State Treas urer; thus making a legislative body of twelve, and abolishing all boards and commissions. The commission sitting permanently, with stated legislative meetings. Such a plan it has been suggested, would give more time and study for carefully working out -proper legislation. It would lessen freak and Bpeclal legis lation which Is rushed through under the present system, of "you tickle me and I'll tickle you," or "trading system," and place our state legisla tion on a more careful und scientific basis. Kansas is studying this same ques tion, as are also Wisconsin and other states which believe In progress; they are deeming some such Btep needful to wipe out corporation lob bying and Influence baneful In legis lation, both Btate and National. 8ome 330 cities are successfully using commission government for cities, with more and more added every week. And no city which haa adopted the commission form has gone back to the old system. Less officials with a direct responsibility being the cry of the hour, for city, state and Nation. This too, will If possible, lessen the cost of govern ment and thereby bring to us a lower tax levy. The East Side Business Men s Club of Portland has been studying this state commission government ques tion. A committee has been appoint ed to pursue the sludy and take the necessary steps to have framed and submitted to the people for their ap proval commission form of state gov ernment. If deemed advisable. It is deemed best to invite citizens who believe In "going forward" and THE BIG DAYLIGHT STORE 8. i Tomorrow, Last Day for January Sale g All Coupons in January Sale Advertisement Will be Void After January t 31stUse Them Today. Qfr.-o Will CnAn Re ToDminrt aJLAJlt In progress, to meet and to over the problem! in detail. Pursuant to thla a call U hereby extended to you to be present at a meeting to be held In Auditorium of Eaat Side Library. E. 11th and E. Alder street, Portland, Oregon, at 8 p. m. on Feb. 10th, 1914, to consider the matter of commission form of government tor the state of Oregon. This question being deemed a matter of treat importance to the entire commonwealth. I What think you of this plan? Dan Kellaher, chairman: C. C. Hall, M. O. Collins, M. B. McFaul. L. M. Lepper, Commission Government Committee. HA8 VRRY MTTI.K CHANCE FOR A REGIONAL RANK. PORTLAND. Jan. 30. President A. L. Mills, of the First National Hank, and president of the Portland Clearing House Association, was the principal speaker at the regional banking hearing today before Secre tary McAdoo and Secretary Houston. At the conclusion of his address set ting forth Portland's claims to a regional bank, In answer to a ques tion by Secretary McAdoo as to how Portland would overcome the cur rency act's requirement for a capitali sation of 14,000,000 when the North west can only present about 2,.r00, 000 of available capital, Mills replied, "I believe it to be an almost Insuper able obstacle. If we are able to show that we are ao situated as to need a reserve bank, then the Gov ernment should help us." Mills stated that letters received from bankers In Washington, Idaho, West ern Montana and Oregon showed thut most of their banking business Is done with Portland. IinilM.RS A UK PHOGRE8MNG. Twenty-nine Htwl Structure Be tween Eugene and Coos Iluy. Eugene Guard: G. Wlllard, of the bridge building firm of McCreary & Wlllard, of Spokane, returned last night from a trip to Seattle and went out this afternoon to the work on the Willamette Pacific. Mr. Wil'ard sayB there are to be 29 steel brldgeB between Eugene and Coos Bay, the largest of which will be across the I'mpqua River. This structure will consist of seven 200-foot spans. The work on thlB bridge has not been be gun. The bridge company hos completed only four bridges as yet, each 00 feet long. Four more similar bridges are to be finished after which there will be nothing further done until about the first of June. S. P. R.R. COMPANY GIVES NOTICE THAT TAXES ON LANDS MAY NOT BE PAID EUGENE, Or., Jan. 29. Informal notice that the Southern Pacific Com pany may not pay taxes on lands In Lane County held under trm Con gressional grants was given County AsseBBor Keeney yesterday by Judge Colvig, newly appointed tax and right of way agent of the Southern Pacific Company. The total tax on these lands, lying In Lane County, amounts to ftto.ouu for the county and state- taxes, and if it is not re ceived will cause a serious deficit In the county budget. The loss would fall entirely upon the county, because the state apportionment to Lane County has been made upon the basia of the payment of these taxes. Should the company determine to pay the taxes, It would be under pro test, making the sums repayable If the Supreme Court confirms the de cision forfeiting the lands. (Other counties will doubtless be given similar notice. In Douglas County this tax aggregates over $70,000). We NEW 111 UUU11 chandise We GIRL H LIFE Miss Edith Porter, of Ten Mile, Shoots Herself DESPONDENT EROM ILL HEALTH DuttUr if Ir. tti Mrs. I. tl. Nrter, Hiskly stctJKi Itstats if That Satin Fir Uny Yore Put About 4:30 o'clock Thursday after noon. Jan. 29. 1914. Miss Edith Por ter, of Ten Mile, ended her life by shooting herself In the forehead with a .22 caliber Winchester rifle. She was 16 years of age and the. otdext daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. II. Porter, highly esteemed residents of that neighborhood. She wus, her self, a fine looking, well developed and loveahle girl and had a host of friends. She had been In rather poor 'health for some months and had been , under treatment for n stomach ail ment, but seemed to be better of late. J Although despondent at limes nnd J somiurtfHTeTl because she ruiiltl not attend with her clashes regularly nt school, no intimation was ever even hinted that she contemplated Buch a tragic ending of her life. She evidently had It carefully planned, however, choosing a moment when her father nnd brothers were I at the burn, and her mother and the (other children were In the kitchen. Then she took the little rifle from the brackets where It rested In the living room nnd stepped Into an ad Joining bedroom, placed the niu..le firmly against her forehead just above the Inner corner of the eye and pressed the trigger. She dropped for ward on her face from a standing position and was still grasping the weapon with one hand when her younger sister, who heard the shot, rushed In a moment later. The skull was penetrated by the bullet, and al though breathing continued for near ly half an hour, she never showed any Hlgn of regaining consciousness. Dr. Hoover was immediately called by telephone, but hud gotten only a i mile or so out of town when w was notified that the young lady wus dead. Coroner Jewett was soon af terwards notified, and with O. II. Pickens as driver went at once to the Porter home, arriving there half an hour after midnight. He found a large uumber of neighbors in at tendance, made a careful examina tion of the case and returned home, reaching town at 7 o'clock this morning. The facts being so clear In the case, no lniuest was deenn-d necessary. He also found that the profound sympathy of the neighbor hood was with the stricken family, who are held in high estei-m then. Besides her father and mother, six brothers and sisters survive her. The funeral will be held on Satur day with Intermem m the Ten Mile cemetery, about 1 0 in Ilt-s sou t h west of this city. (HAMI.KUI.AIN CilVKX MANY COM.lt.Vn LATIONS. WASHINGTON. Jan. Senator Chamberlain has received a larye number of congratulations, telegrams and letters, upon his success with the Alaska railroad hill, and toduy Senator Chilton, of West Vim in hi, presented him with a gold penknife with this inscription. "George K Chamberlain, in recognition of bis success with the Alaska railroad bill." Give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps. YORK STORE J-Jl X lll 111111 A Wealth Giv S. tc H. Green Trading Stamps. WANDERINGS Of LOST CHILDREN IS TOLD IN LETTER BY ONE Of THEM Deer Creek, Or., Jan. 28, 1914. Editor Review: ' Will you please allow room In your valuable paper for an uccouut of our trip while, lost In the mountains. When my brothers, Lynn, aged 13, Mark, aged 11, Dale, aged 8, and my self started out last Sunday morning the boys went with the Intention of getting some pine gum and I for see ing the country, which I did. We hud a Into breakfast and started at 1 1 o'clock, taking with us two rut and foxterrier dogs, a shepherd pup and two guus, one a IIS-40 Winchester and the other a single shot .22. When we got near the big burn, instead of taking the trail that led onto It. we took another trail that went by John I McCurdy's burned down cabin nnd climbed the side of the burn and went on over into pine woods. After roam ing about among the pine trees for about an hour, we thought wo would come buck on top of the burn und 'get a view of our part of the country. So we left pine woods and followed a trail going southward along the Myrtle Creek side of the burn. When we came on top we were somewhat turned around, lor the snow was fall ing fast and we could not see very far, but soon got started in the right direction, which was northward. We followed this trull until we were al most to A. h Campbell's place, about a mile and a half east of our home, where we should have turned west ward. Hut hist end of that we got onto a blazed trail (hat took us out near Lone Prairie. Night overtook us about half u mile e'a.st of there. We got started down u canyon und traveled until it wus so dark 1 could not sie Lynn three feet ahead of me, so we had to stop and build u fire. We built our fire between a small cedar and a large fir. We hud to strike about two dozen matches be fore we could get our fire to burn. The boys slept part (he night and 1 sang to them some instead of spank ing them all night, as I heard It re ported that 1 did. The night seemed quite long, and we began our Journey as soon as we could see the least bit. We rlhnltril over one mountain after another until about noon, when wu came (o a .Mr. Hall s cabin. It was a mistake about us eating some tur nips theie, I'ur we did not see. any. There was no one at home, so we weal on down the (rail until we cauir lo another Mr. Hall's cabin. Lynn knot lied at (be door and no one an swered, lie then said be heard a door shut somewhere, so we went up (he canyon and arrived at Mrs. Itald w in s cabin on lim k Fork ubout 1 o'clock In (be afternoon. Mrs. Bald win kept us there until next morning iTuendayi. We started for home about 11 o'clock. When we had been on the trail from Mrs. Baldwin's place nearly a quarter of an hour, we found the Hacks of two men. We fd lowed t lo se up lo the first Mr. Ball's cabin. Mrs. Baldwin's oldest hoy, w ho is I I years old, went with us up lo t his cabin. When we got ( here w e round I he t racks of more men. We followed the narks up ttie trail, ami by baid traveling soon overtook siv men front Myrtle Creek, who were lookiim lor us. Two ot t hem went hark to Myrt le Creek to send word that we hail I n round. The others st.iri-i toward home with in ami we were Miitii joirictl iiy the, fifth. Tbi snow w as about a foot 1 deep nil Hut k .- Peak. e iie J. It. Cuiiiiiimha m and wi-ni home with him. Alter a jmumI dinner (he men returned home. Mr, r 'i n nliigham kept us theie 1 1 ii 1 1 i our lather eathe for us next lav. The ll.iblw ins ami I'lin inugha m ale i.'al kind and mm inble people. Tin v 1 1 eated us very ti irely in our trouble. 'I hanking e-r. one tor (licit kind ness, i" main sincerely, I lY A HAMS THE STORE THAT SERVES YOU BEST 7U Cnvmrt 1VW V 1LII I of Style. PEOPLE DROWNED Steamer Sunk by Collision Off Virginia Coast 85 Of PASSENGERS AND CREW Reseat1 ii liftfctits mi ky Otto Vtsds Tke Oasl Ocarrd at 1:45 ML M I Dose fc (Special to The Kvnlng Review). NKW YOKK, Jan. 30. Forty- seven persons are unaccounted for. following 1ho loss at 1:45 a. m. of tho Old Dominion steamship Monroe ; III a collision off the southern const of the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia peninsula, with the Merchants and I Miners liner Nantucket, from Hos j ton. As the Monroe carried a full i complement of life boats and rafts, j it is hoped thut a few will be picked ! up alive, but It Is feared that most of Mliciii went down with the vessel. The i Nnntiit'ket, according to wireless re 1 ports, hail her bow badly crumpled !r the crush, and although taking water was understood to have picked up NO of the Monroe's passengers and crew. The liner Hamilton Is stand iiiK by, mill the revenue cutter Onon iIiiku and several other ocean going tiiKH are on the way to the scene to rpndcr assistance. The collision oc curred in a dense fog. The Monroe left Norfolk for New York at 7 o' clock last evening and carried a crew of 711 with !& first cabin passengers ami somo In the steerage. The Nan tucket rammed the Monroe 25 miles south of Nogg Island. The Nnn- tm-ket was making but half speed, but cut (he .Monroe nearly In two, and (ho latter sank In 20 minutes. The Monroe was 3:14 feet long. lAtm Wan 40 IiIvch, NOItl'Ol.K, Jan. 30. Klghty-flvo Hiirvivoi-H out of the 134 passengers and seamen who put to Bea here last iilKtil on (he steamer Monroe, were landed ul Norfolk this afternoon. The other 411 pei-Bons on board perished when the Monroe went down like lead. The rescued included thlrty-flve passengers mid fifty members of the crew. Of the passengers not one was clad. The women wore only theli ulKlit dresses mid the men were most ly in their pajumas. The mnjorlty of the survivors are ill, and It Is feared that some will die from the shock and the exposure they have un dergone. ItetMirt -17 I'erHoiiH Ixtftt. NOItl'OI.K, Jan. 30. Officers of the old liomiuion line placed the number of saved from the steamer Monroe at KG, and the missing st 47. or (he saved 3 1 were passengers and TiTi members of the crow. Of the missing 23 were passengers and 24 of i he crew. MARRIED. I'AKMI-: PA I. M Kit. At the office of Justice of I he Peace J. (1. Wells, who iifricliiled. Jan. 2D, 1914, at 1J noon. M. A. I'll nine, of Hose. I.nri;. ami Miss Kniina Ilelle Palmer, of Ktigeno. - Eugene Cnard. Mr. I'ardne Ik employed at the I lo h i Md'lulleii in IIiIh clly. t'anl of TlmnkH. We desire to thank ul! of the rtn-ii'1 who rescued our children l av. I. win, Mark and Dale, and all those ulm In any way assisted or flowed sinpatliy In our sore distress Silt. ASH MHH. MATIIEW ADAMS. r W X 9 I 1111 c o ST ANOTHKR OWKKR KOK UKA.NI (lltll.l, KIXTl Itl. Precipitated by a legal controversy aa the result of a Sheriff's sale Wed nesday, C. W. Hopkins, owner of the Qrand Hotel, this afternoon became the owner of the Grand Grill, which Is to be continued under the old man agement of Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Pry, although It Is understood a remodel ing will take place and the business conducted on a new policy. This afternoon E. Helllwell, buyer ot the furnishings at the Sheriff's sale, endeavored to remove the same to the building formerly occupied by the Golden Rule store, for the pur pose ot opening a new restaurant. This, however, was objected to by Mr. Hopkins, who claimed an owner ship of a part of the furnishings at tached to the wall.K The goods were then brought baokr ind after a con ference between Hopkins and Helll well, the former agreed to take over the furnishings. The amount paid was $476, which was $5 less than the bid ot M.r Helllwell at the sale. IiOCAL NEWS. W. E. Chapman, of Kockland, was transacting business here today. City Engineer Hicks stated today that the new flshway at the South Umpqua dam In this city was not washed out by the recent high water, as It has not yet been built, only a little more than the foundation being In place. What was washed out, on the date reported In The Review, was a considerable portion of the new bulkhead and some other fixtures lately put In at the old flshway. The new flshway Is to go In on the other side of the river and work on It will be resumed when the water geta low enough. x An altercation took place In the Roseburg National Hank this after noon In which A. C. MursterB Is said to have assaulted W. S. Irvine, a traveling man from San Francisco and also' applied to him a vile epithet. The affulr arose over a check for f 10 on that bank, drawn in favor of Ir vine. The check is said to have been presented at another bank during the forenoon, and on an Inquiry by tele phone was pronounced alright. Dur ing the afternoon the check was brought to Mr. Irvine at his hole! with the words "payment stopped," written across the face. He at once returned tho $10 to the bank through which the check first passed and went to the other to Investigate the mutter further, when he was as saulted ns stated' abovo. Whether any arrest of the assailant will be made Is not yet known. MOVEMENT WILL FORCE SHERIDAN ESTATE INTO COURT Of BANKRUPTCY Action has been commenced to set aside tho assignment proceedings of T. It. Hlierldun and put Ills property through a bankruptcy process Instead. A petition to that effect has been riled In tho Federal Court In I'orl lund and mi order Is expected In a day or two. This action Is said to have been brought by two or three local creditors who had allachmenls agalnsi some of Mr. Sheridan's prop orly before bo filed tho recent deed of assignment. That assignment dis solved those a((achuien(H, giving alt the creditors an eiiial standing. I( Is assumed (hat (ho prest-M acdon is liiken wllh a view lo reinstating (hose atlachments, tint his is a ques tion upon which attorneys are not agreed as lo whether (hat will lie the result. Ill either uu usslgnuiont or hy hankriiptcy proceedings all credit ors are pr7umed to sharo alike.' COOK WITH GAS CLEAN. QUICK. ECONOMICAL After you have once used It, you will never cook with anything els. Hlove Installed at 921.00 up. OregonGas&E $50,000.00 Umpqua Power, Ice and Development Co. (I.NCOltl'OllATKI)) lieslres lo Inform tho citizens of Roseburg that the company I Issuing ir-yuur 6',',. gold bonds. The money will be expended In Roseburg tho coming spring and summer In improvetucuts in Umpqua Park Ad dition. Mechanics or all kind are kindly Invited to Investigate th different Improvements. Information will be furnished by addreasing Uox 47S, Roseburg, Oregon. Umpqua Power, Ice and Development Co. (INCORPORATED) Branded by Delegate is Co- finned Boozeftgfcler SUSTAINS TWO-CM FAS Utif KssMri Will Sm U Imtv &4,00MN Met dim ha . men Cdii ki trim (Special to Til Evening lUvtsrw). INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10 A sharp clash between President Samuel , Oompers and Duncan McDonald, ut" Illinois, enlivened the morning e-; slon of the United Mine Worker' convention. "I Just want to say to : the delegates of thla convention, ; said McDonald in a speech, "thai! (lompera has no right to a seat her. ', He is nothing more or lea than a , confirmed boose-flghter." Oosapen '. leaped to hi feet, whit wlta fa), ' v and advanced on McDonald, shaklaai ' his fist. "McDonald la an BBtti. ' gated liar. He know better," Oomp ers shouted. Other delegate kept the men apart. McDonald declared that all the executive of the Ameri can Federation of Labor ar hard drinkers. "They are a hunch ot re actionary, fossilised booseflghters," he said.. CHARLTON CASK POSTPOWaTD. COMO, Italy, Jan. 30. Tho trial of . Porter Charlton, th America, lor wife murder, was today Ordarad post poned until next June.- It If aadar stood this postponement la duo to $h court' ballet of Charlton' 'dvclarjt tlon that hi wife was sexually abnor mal and possessed a dual natura. 8a satlonal revelation ar expeetad from an investigation which waa or dered by the Judges. Publlo ntt ment is with Charhon. HI 8TAINH IM'KNT FARES. KANSAS CITY, Jan. SO Federal Judge Mct'herson today dismissed tha Injunctions which restrained tha state of Missouri from putting Into effect the two-cent per mil railroad passenger fare law, and prevented Attorney-General Darker from suing for $24,000,000 as overcharge which he asserts the road made while tha law wns In litigation. It Is under stood that Darker will begin suK Im mediately in the state courts to re cover this sum from the railroad. A MODERN HOME. Owner will sell hiodern bungalow,, on paved street; six large room, with romploto bath room and spa cious reception hall; Mission fire place, hullt-ln bookcases; full base-' ment with cement floor; laundry j tubs: cement walks In. Four blocks: from Masonic temple. Price reason able. Address J. G., rare Review, Judge l T. Harris, of Eugene, ha announced himself as a candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court of Ore gon at the coming election. Four Justices are tu be elected next Fall, the terms of Justices Mcllrlde, Dean, McN'ary and Itamsey expiring. All will he candidates to succeed them selves. Judge II. I.. Ilenson, of Klam ath Falls, Is also a candidate. All anil Republicans except Judge Ram sey, who Is a Democrat, LECTRICCO V. i'.ISftf I'V '.'-'lii!' '.ViV" ''wi'sVi,