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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1915)
DOINGS OF OREGON’S LEGISLATURE German Army Officer Dynamites Canadian Rridge NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS Variety of Styles in Afternoon Gowns Vanceboro, Me. — Another interna-, tiona) problem Incident to the war was A Brief Resume of Proceedings of the People’s Representatives Portland—The egg market is hold ’ thrust upon the United States by the ing steady at the 125-cent basis for ■t the Htate Capital, Bills Introduced, Passed, Rejected, Etc. action of Werner van Horn, who, large lots, case count. Efforts have operating on the Canadian side of the i>een made by some dealers to break House Passes Its House Votes Appropriations border, dynamited the railway bridge the price still further, but without suc cess, as receipts so far have not been Compensation Hill Agyreyatiny $1,1H5,627 over the St. Croix river and then es- heavy. It is only the backwardness of buyers that has brought the market to State Capitol, Salem-- By a vote of State Capitol, Salem Four big ap ca|>ed into this state. A few hours later, in a room at a the present level. 66 to 2 the houee paaaed house bill propriation bills, providing expendi 222, providing a aeries of amendments tures for as many big state depart hotel here, Van Horn quietly submit There was a little better demand to the workmen’s compensation act ments and aggregating $1,186,627, ted to arrest, but immediately pro for poultry and the market was a that are ex|>ected to remedy defects in were passed by the house. claimed himself an officer of the Ger the law that have been discovered in The several departments and the man army and set up the contention shade firmer. Dressed meat receipts the few months it has I mmiu In effect. amount appropriated for each for the that he hed committed an act of war, were small and the market was quiet. There is a very (fair movement in The principal change contemplated next biennium are: Capitol and Su and, having fled to a neutral country, Dealers report a la to rcclnaaify the Industries and preme Court buildings and grounds, could not be legally surrendered to an the apple market. better demand for dollar fruit than make their rates of insurance under $68,560; state hospital for the insane, enemy of the fatherland. any time this winter. Heretofore the the act commensurate with the risk in $676,166; institution for the feeble The Canadian authorities, however, volved. minded, 9141,901; Eastern Oregon at once instituted proceedings to ob inquiry has been almost wholly for the cheaper apples. The measure require» the industrial hospital for t lie in nine. $305,MOO. tain Van Horn’s extradition on a The big January buying movement i accident commission to investigate all 11,.’bill providing $174,700 for the charge of destruction of railroad prop in the hop market appears to have ex- < cases where it has reason to believe state penitentiary and that appropriat erty. Pending the outcome of these that employers subject to the act have ing 920,216 for the blind school were efforts, Van Horn is held at the immi tended into February, although dealers failed to install or maintain safety laid on the table temporarily to give gration office here in custody of Deputy re[Kjrt a slowing down of operation» : appliances required by statute, and to Governor Withy combo further oppor Sheriff Guorge W. Ross, of Washing with some of.the more important buy- I ere withdrawn from the market. rejort cases of failure to a prosecuting tunity to study them. ton county. The Pierce Riggs crop of 107 bales, attorney and request criminal proceed None of the measures passed pro The bridge which Van Horn sought at Independence, was sold to Durbin & ings. vides for any permanent improve to destroy was not greatly damaged. It further offers inducements to em ments, excepting^the Eastern Oregon The St. Croix river for some dis i Connoyer at 12 cents. Dorcas Bros, ployers to rumove the hazard from asylum bill which carries 9160,000 for tance forms the boundary between bought the Twin Woo crop of 314 bales their shops and factories by reducing a new building. Maine and New Brunswick. The at Salem at 12 cents. H. L. Hart bought the Wolf lot of their rates in propotrion to the reduc In the 1013-1914 biennium, these bridge is owned jointly by the Maine tion of the number of accidents. same four institutions and departments Central and the Canadian Pacific rail 96 bales at St. Louis at 12 cent, 63 It was openly charged on the floor of had appropriations aggregating 91.- ways and is on the direct route of the bales from W. Johnson, of Clatskanie, the house that the casualty companies 376,946.61, which included 9133,000 Canadian Pacific from Western Canada Mill cents, the Balch crop of 40 bales were vsger to have the bill defeated for completing the Supreme Court to the maritime provinces. Over thia at Silverton, at 11} cents, and the old an<l that they would benefit by enact building, 941,000 for new buildings at road have been shipped large quanti and new hope of Gearin & Vandall, of ment of a law similar to the Michigan the feeble-minded institution, 945,000 ties of war materials for the allies, Newberg, paying 11 cents for 60 bales law. for new buildings at the Eastern Ore which were placed on board ships at of 1914s and 6 cents for 35 bales of 1913s. A dozen members spoke in favor of gon hospital and approximately 945,- St. John and Halifax. Wheat — Bid: Bluestem, $1.55; the bill. Including Representative 000 for work on the new receiving forty-fold, $1.54; club, $1.52; red Scheubel, its author, and Sam Brown, want at [the state insane hospital at Russian, $1.45; red Fife, $1.49. Export Trade Makes Mr. Smith, of Multnomah, Home, Salem. Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $30.50 Hare, I^iwis, Jeffries and Wentworth. The ways and means committee has Record During January @81.50 ton; shorts, $32.60(433.50; It was pointed out that the bill had the not decreased the per capita allow Washington, D. C.—Foreign trade rolled barley, $386x39. indorsemen" of both employers and ances for any institution, but has kept Corn—White, $37 ton;*cracked, $38. employes, and Dr. Smith declared that the projiosed expenditures at a mini from January 2 to January 30 through Hay—Eastern Oregon timothy, $14 the best argument in favor of it was mum by eliminating from the budget 13 principal customs ports, which "4 16 ton; valley timothy, $12.50; the charge that the casualty companies estimates all unnecessary improve HERE Is a greater variety of styles peared. . It was one of those produced were against it. ment work and by allowing no new handle approximately 86 per cent of grain hay, $10@12; alfalfa, $12@13. and a greater latitude for the by Kur: Kurzman, for the display of Ameri Vegetables — Cucumbers, hothouse. work except the building at the the nation’s export and import busi ness, netted a balance in favor of the $1.25(41.50 dozen; eggplant, 8(410c taste of the Individual in afternoon can designs, at New York. Among Pendleton institution. Ardent Appeal Made tor gowns than in others. Something like many lovely things it was admired and United States of $131,133,888, ex pound; peppers, $4 crate; artichokes, Irrigation Appropriation Non-Partisan Judiciary ceeding all records for any one month. 85(490c dozen; tomatoes, $1.75 crate; uniformity is evidenced in costumes praised, but was so different in outline State/'apitol, Salem- Leading busi The total exports for the four weeks, cabbage, U}c pound; beans, 12c; cel for the street; women confine their from prevailing modes that it became Is Object of New Hill January ness men of Portland, Eastern Oregon 2 to January 30, was $238,- ery, $2.50 crate; cauliflower, $2.25; choice In dresses of this kind to one something of a sensation. an other sections of the state at a State Capitol, Salem -A bill to place 674,096, or an average of $59,643,524 sprouts, 8c pound; head lettuce, $1.85 of a half-dozen (or even fewer) ac It is clearly set forth In the picture meeting here urged the joint ways the state judiciary on n non-partisan per week. The imports were $107,- (42 crate; squash, lc pound; carrots, cepted styles. But in the afternoon and so plain that it hardly needs de ami means committee to report favor basis, similar to that proposed and de 440,208, or an average of $26,860,052 $1.25 sack; beets, $1.25; parsnips, gown they are inclined to run after scription. It is made of corded silk, $1.25. strange gods. However, these are the has a plain, flaring skirt and an equally ably u|*on the house bill providing an feated at the November election, is a week. Green Fruits — Apples, 75c@$1.50 gods of unpretentious and conserva plain boned bodice. The sleeves are appropriation of 1450,000 for irriga one of the measures (lending before the Officials of the department of Com tion work the neit two years. All de judiciary committee in the house. merce said these figures represented per box; casabas, $1.65 crate; cran tive styles, it seems, and a definite very short, with turned-back cuffs of clared that the proposed work would simplicity is an apparent governing the material, and a fichu finishes the The measure was introduced by only telegraphic returns from the berries, $11 barrel. Potatoes — Oregon, $1@1.25 sack; Idea in a great many of the new neck. There Is no frill or fall of lace, constitute an investment the state Representative Handley, of Tillamook, principal customs ports and that when could ill-afford to decline to make, in and is indorsed by some of the leading complete reports were received from Yakima, $1.10@l. 16; sweet potatoes, modes. But afternoon gowns are not no girdle, no embroidery or other or asmuch as the Federal government had attorneys in the state. The commit throughout the service the volume of 2}c pound. to be measured by any rule, and there namentation. It is almc t austere and Onions — Oregon, selling price, $1 is no harm in repeating that the indi is saved by its quaintness and pictur guaranteed to give a similar amount in tee has taken no action, and may be business transacted last month would the reclamation of the arid lands of governed by the fact that the people show a material increase—about 14 sack, country points. vidual may follow her own sweet will esque attributes. Since the advent Eggs — Freeh Oregon ranch, case in selecting the styles that please her of this gown doubts as to the coming the state. rejected a similar plan at the polls, al per cent—over the present figures. Joseph T. Hinkle, representative in though by a narrow margin. best. Of the four weeks mentioned, the count, 25t$26c; candled, 27@28c. of the wide rippled skirt may be said Poultry—Hens, 12c pound; broilers, the legislature from Umatilla county, Before the committee is a bill by last, ended January 30, produced a A radical departure from accepted to have disappeared; it no longer looks 18(420c; turkeys, dressed, 21c; live, and chairman of the house irrigation Hinkle providing a state system of an favorable balance of $35,901,635. Ac styles was evident in the afternoon unusual. committee, said the progressive busi nuities. It virtually empowers the cording to the department’s records, 18c; ducks, 13@14c; geese, llj@12c. dress pictured here, when it first ap- JULIA BOTTTOMLEY. Butter — Creamery, prints, extras, ness men of the state wanted the ap state to go into the life insurance busi this shows the largest excess of ex 32c pound in case lots; }c more in less propriation as was evidenced by its ad ness, the money to be invested in irri ports over imports for any similar per vocacy by the Portland Commercial gation projects and other public works. iod for more than 10 years. Exports than case lots; cubes, 256x26c. Veal—Fancy, ll}@12c pound. club, the Portland Chamber of Com Representative Lafferty’s bill em for this week totaled $63,668,139 and Pork—Block, 9c pound. merce, the Progressive Business Men’s powering the state to develop idle imports $27,766,604. Hops — 1914 crop, 10@12}c; 1913 club, the lumber, railroad and other cement properties and build roads with crop, nominal. interests. the cement also is before this com England Declares food Wool — Valley, 20(4 23c; Eastern J. N. Teal, of the conservation com mittee. mission, said the legislature faced a Two measures by Representative tor Germany Contraband Oregon, 15($20c, nominal; mohair, 1914 clip, 27c. question of economy, not parsimony. Hare aimed to relieve congestion in Washington, D. C. — Ambassador Cascara bark — Old and new, 4}c The day of large irrigation projects the courts also are before the judi being carried to a successful conclus ciary committee. One would prevent Page, at London, cabled the State de pound. Cattle — Prime steers, 97.50@8; ion by private capital, he said, had appeals to the Supreme court on cases partment Wednesday that the British passed. It was purely a governmental involving less than 9250, and the other fleet had been ordered to treat cargoes choice, $7.25@7.60; medium, $6.75 @ function, he declared, for individuals would prevent jury trial of cases in of grain and flour destined for Ger 7.25; choice cows, $6(46.80; medium, would want profits, but the govern volving less than 9250. many or Austria as conditional contra $5(4.6; heifers, $5($7 ; bulls, $3.50@6; ment, working in the interest of the Among the other judiciary bills is band. subject to seizure and confisca stags, $4.50(46. Hogs — Light, $6.25@7.25; heavy, people, would not. Reclamation would one by Representative Blanchard regu tion. have to be done, he declared, either lating commission merchants, requir This step, the ambassador explained, $5.25(436.25. Sheep—Wethers, $5.75@6.70; ewes, by the state or the National govern ing them to file heavy bonds and pay followed the announcement that the ment or by them working in co-oper license, and another by Representative German government had decreed con $5(45.80; lambs, $6.25@7.85. ation. Declaring that a considerable Stott applying the hotel kee|iers’ alien fiscation of all grain and flour to con part of the eastern section of the state law to apartment houses. serve the nation's food supply. Since ■ Tacoma—Sugar continues its upward was a desert and would remain so until the publication of the German order climb. Dealers predict another ad it was supplied with water, Mr. Teal Hospital Fees Guarded. the ambassador here. Count Von Bern- vance of 15 cents on all varieties, and said, it is in the interest of good busi State Capitol, Salem — Contracting storff, personally has assured the say they are unable to determine when ness to improve the land as soon as the advance will end. The soaring of firms, industriaCconcerns, mercantile American government that no food local sugar is in line with the New possible. He urged that a continuous stuffs imported from the United States plan of work be adopted until all arid institutions and'other large employers or neutral countries would be subject York market. of labor that collect funds from their to seizure and press dispatches have land was reclaimed. The local produce market had no employes for hospital service will be announced the issuance of a modifying outstanding features. Green stuffs required to give an accounting of the decree making such exemptions by the are in good supply now and are prov Interstate H ridge Hill In. money and to give the workmen a German government. ing popular. State Capitol, Salem —All profits de voice in its expenditure, by the terms Ambassador Page said the British Meats and poultry show no change. rived from the operation of the Inter of a bill that was passed by the house. government had informed him that be Apples — Green cooking, 50c box; state bridge, between Portland and Representative Horne, author of the cause the steamship Wilhelmina, now Spitzenbergs, Winesaps. Rome Beau Vancouver, Wash., are to be turned measure, declared that the system now bound from New York to Hamburg ties, Arkansas Blacks, Staymen Wine over to the state to apply on the in in vogue among some of the "fly-by- with grain and other food, had sailed saps, and Black Twigs, 75(<£85c; Deli terest charges on the bridge bonds, if night” railroad contractors constitutes before the issuance of the German de- the action taken by the house is car cious, $ 1.65(d) 1.75. cna, an exception would be made in Comb Honey—Yakima, 93.25 crate; ried to its ultimate conclusion. The bill nothing but an "organized graft.” her case. strained honey, 95.50; Idaho, 93.50. wax up for adoption and referred back Hsh Measures Continued. The vessel would be seized, it was Pears—Yakima, $1.50. to the committee on revision of laws State Capitol. Salem—To give all said, but she would be released and her Vegetables—Cabbage, home-grown, for the pur|M>sc of having the provis ion to give the Htate ti>e surplus tolls members opjiortunity to inform them cargo purchased at invoice price by lie pound; carrots, local. 75c(d)$l Warning sack; beets, home-grown, 75c(<t$l; inserted. The measure provides that selves regarding the measures the sen the British government. the county commissioners and the gov ate has postponed action on the Gill was given, however, that other ship turnips, $1.35; potatoes, Yakima, $21 ernor shall have charge of the bridge. bill to close the Willamette river to ments hereafter of like character, ($22 ton; Whiteriver, $17@18; Bur net fishing and bills relating to fishing when destined for Germany directly or banks, $22; onions, green, 20c dozen; in the Rogue river next week. indirectly, would be seized, as well as Yakima, $1.50; garlic, 15c pound; rad Trading-Stamp lax Asked. Senator Dimick, who is leading the State Capitol, Salem—A bill which, fight for the Oregon City fishermen in the vessels carrying them, without ishes, local, 20c dozen bunches; pars compensation. ley. 35c dozen bunches; lettuce, head, it is believed, would end the trading- the senate, promised if the continu $2.15 crate; spinach, local, 5c pound; atamp industry in this state if passed ance were granted he would make no cucumbers, $1.50(4'2 dozen; celery, loo Much Hag. Is Excuse. ITH the earliest hats for spring, or The hair is parted off about the face was introduced by Senator I.a Follette. effort to obtain another one with the Victoria, B. C.—Of the 7500 reels $3.50 crate; green peppers, 25c pound; with some of them, there is no and combed forward, where it is to be It provides that all )>erxons and cor- object of delaying action’ and imperil eggplant, 10c; Hubbard squash, 2ic; chance of coiffures which require any coiled and pinned to keep it out of the [torations furnishing trading stamps ing the Gill measure the last days of of moving pictures which have been rutabagas, $1.75 sack; cauliflower, barred from British Columbia in the $2.50 crate; artichokes, 90c dozen; extra size in the crown or head size. way, while the back hair is dressed. to patrons must pay to the state annu the session. last 12 months, 50.5 per cent have Brussels sprouts, 8c pound; rhubarb, For the new ventures in millinery are If there is a sufficient quantity of this ally 6 per cent of the gross receipts of Jitney Query Propounded. been ’“scratched” because the use of 10c. their businesses. It shall be the duty even smaller than the small hats worn to braid into two soft full plaits it of the State Tax commissioner to ob State Capitol, Salem — Is a jitney the "Stars and Stripes” was consider Fresh Meats — Steers, 12ic; cows, this winter. Many of them are merely may be managed as shown in the pic tain the names of persons or corpora bus a public conveyance? That is a ed excessive. "Not that we have any 12c; heifers, 12(d)12}c; wethers, 12jc; a narrow band of satin or straw ex ture. The plaits are pinned flat across tions using trading stamps and file question that Harvey Wells, State In objection to the flag of the United dressed hogs, 12c; trimmed sides, tending like a bandage about the head, the back of the head below the crown. lists with the State Treasurer not later surance commissioner,’ must answer States,” explained the official censor. 16jc; combinations, 15jc; lambs, 13(d) supporting a scant crown of satin gath If the hair is scanty it will look better Films "slandering the allies in the 14c; Diamond T. C., 14c; yearlings, ered in to the band at its upper edge. twisted into light coils and pinned than Fcburary 1 every year. within the next few days. 4 man fTirtland was injured while riding in a war” were rejected to the number of 13c; ewes, 11c. By way of trimming, exquisitely made down. Portland Confab 1» Called. jitney. He carried an accident policy 5.5, while 18 reels wer turned back on Poultry—Ducks, live, 10($12c; hens, flowers are sewed flat to the band, The front hair is to be parted either State Capitol Salem—A meeting of which had the usual provision of the score that they were anti-Brit- dressed, 16 (<fi 18c; live, 10 @ 14c; There are sailors and other shapes in the middle or a little to one side and ish. the joint committees from the house double indemnity in case of injury in springs, dressed, 22c; live, 14($16c; that fit as closely. rolled back from the face. The ends and senate with n similar committee a public conveyance. The insurance squabs, live, 2.50 dozen; dressed, $6; For such close-fitting head wear the are twisted and concealed under the Rig Ships Pass Canal. company doesn ’ t want to pay the from the Washington State legisla turkeys, live, 18c; dressed, 28($30c; problem is that of disposing of the back hair. With the toilet comb Panama—The new Northern Pacific geese, 20c. ture will he held at the Benson Hotel double rate. The policyholder has ap average quantity of natural hair so strands of the hair about the face are steamship Great Northern and the in Portland next Saturday morning to pealed the case to the commissioner. Butter—Washington creamery, 30(d) that it will not interfere with the fit pulled forward into loose waves and American line steamer Kroonland, the 31c; Oregon, 29(<(30c. consider proposed changes in the fish of the hat. and also to provide a few pinned with invisible pins into i^si- Anti-Loan Shark Hill Hied. largest two passenger boats yet to use Eggs—Freeh ranch, 27(<j)28c; stor ing laws on the Columbia river. It is waves in the locks about the face to tion. A liberal use of the hairpins State Capitol, Salem—A bill intro the Panama canal, passed through the age, 20(d, 2 5c. probable that both houses will ad _____ soften the severity of straight lines in will keep the coiffure neat looking, journ Saturday to give members of duced by Senator Dimick prohibits the waterway, both making fast time. Seattle Wheat — Bluestem, $1.53; the hat. The plain coiffure shown in and as hair nets are hardly practical the committees opportunity to at assignment of wages by married men The trip was without special incident tend this meeting without absent unless the written consent of the wives The ships used the new channel, which forty-fold, 91.52; club, 91-60; Fife, the picture given here offers a solu for this particular style, the pins are a tion that is attractive. It is becoming necessity. ing themselves from the regular ses are obtained. The senator introduced has been dredged through the slide at 91.47; red Russian, 91.42. to most faces and easy to accomplish. JULIA BÇTTOMLBY. Barley — 935 ton. Cucaracha. the bill by request. sions. T Hairdress Without Waves or Curls W e, ,« .u. t, » /(■ "