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OREGON HISTORICAL ftOCIKTV TOURHt V AIDQ . . 3UCOND COU.TAYLOfc (A.. P0frUH Th InUrprli I th II I only Clicacma Count II II Nawipapar Out prlni 11 II (II of (hi nw f (hit Vilr growing Cownly. . CI RPRISE . . Th Wkl tntoprli I irtrtli lh nt. Campin it wild iimfi nd tnn tvb- tril. 4 okwjon cut kntkrimnhk, km day. Aim'sr 20, 101.1. tITAtLIIHIO IMt FORT V NINTH VI AH No, 4. IECdON TY I T AMERICAN STANDARD RULt IN TERNATIONAL FINANCE. WITH IRON. CRIP. POUNDS, FRANCS AND LIS CO 10 ENTIRELY NEW DEPTHS Contract for tupplU All found to Call for Pymnt Dollar Mor gan' Rpprne on Straat Chr. NKW YORK. Aug 16 Tli Amerl r 111 dollar rub- th flnair'lal world lo day with an Iron grip I'ounda ater-j DOL AR BECOMES FOUNDATION FOR RADE Or WORLD ling, franc, lire, virtually all foreign -Tt, r(inMioii. therefore, respect eiobanK went dew n In new depth In flly rKuet that ahlppera and ro a torrent of bllla that poured Into the rVrrg f freight In rarload lota use ,ei limine market from American man- j rV(,ry Pff,,rt to load and unload rara iifai lurer as king pay for big war coil-1 (n I,,,, umn u, tH bourn' free time tract of munition and oilier upplle purchased here by the warring na tlona of F.uroie. Coincident wllh the atartllng de-l ciinn in rn limine ihii-i. rnin mfi aertlon from nn unlinprearhable source thai every contract made by tho American manufacturer for up Idle ent abroad railed for payment In Amerlcand dollar, and not English pound aterllng. which have hereto fore been the tandrd of finance tho world over. The Immenii loaaea. therefore, due to the decline In foreign exchange ratea will be borne, to th laat penny, by the foreign buyer, and will not be auatalned by the American manufac turer. The maximum depreciation today In pound aterllng wa 4 S 4 per cent be low normal; In Italian Urea. J5 per rent. Tn the money marketa today the pound old for only t.6l, 8.02 franc equalled a dollar, and dollar purchnaer 6 4 Urea. In tho laat hour of the bualnea day. the preaenre In Wall atroet of 3, P. Morgan for the flmt tlmo alnce the ttck on hi life alx week inc and an Informal con ference of bankera to ronalder the ex rhnnge altuntlon. aent wtoa upward. STARTS $1000 .FIRE A purk from a threnlilnK iimrliluo at work on the farm of Frank Weddle. of Stafford, aet on fire and deatroyod four alack of hay and 20 cord of wood lute Friday afternoon. The machine had flushed threatilng Hlioiil 270 liimhelH of grnln and two other alack were uncovered when a apark from tho thresher lit In ono or the alack nnd before help could b anmmoncd the blaxo had gullied Biich headway that fire. flKhtlng wa nao Ichh. Tho hlaro from tho hay caught fire to a nearby fence, loading the fire to cord wood which burned before water could bo aecured," The four atnek of hay were In a group In the middle of which Mood tho machine. Tho Iohh wan about $1000 with no limiirance. The270 hushuls of grain that had boon throHhed was all that waa saved. SPARK FROM THRESHER ALL HOUSES ON GALVESTION SEA WALL DESTROYED ARE LEFT HIGH Loss of Life Is Not Determined And Great Damage to Property of Gulf City Is Not Definitely Known Storm Is Sweeping In land And Ruining And Damaging Crops Several Towns Without Communication. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 17. Known results of the Oulveston storm early tonight were: The big army transport McClellan loft high nnd dry after being blown half a mile Inland. All buildings along waterfront are ruined. Many ships destroyed and others are badly damaged. Pecuniary damuRe 1b great. This Information was received by wireless tonight ht Fort Sam Houston from tho transport Huford, which Is In Galveston Hnrhor, affording the only means of communication with the Iso lated city. Whether any futalltloB have occur red has not been determined, the Bu ford message saying: "The number of lives lost Is unknown." This message Indicates the water has receded two feet In about three hours, as a message received about 2 STEPS TO PREVENT CAR SHORTAGE TAKEN RAILROAD! tECUH COOPCRA TION OP tTATI COMMIMION POITIRB ttNT OUT HAI.KM. Oro., Aug l There la to Ixi no rar alnirlana wh-n the grain rrop move thl year If the public scrvliw commission of Oregon ran help It, Demiirrait rulea and per diem rhre mad by railroad for undue delay In loading or unloading ran re only partially iiccesful In getting rolling bIih k hack Into iM-rvlce and ao th carrier aaki'd the commission to help tin-in. Poster prepared Iiy tho commission arc being distributed by (ho railroad' today for display at fri-litlit houai- and lullon and wherever lhy will Ilia eye of shipper. 'Freight rara srw for transportation of goods and are but warehouse." ay the poster. ' Willi they are ldl, vailing for loading or unloading, from Iha slutidnolul of effl lewy. ttii-y . . . , w )m, ,,, 0f mutowe. ,M.rmitted by our demurrage rulv Shipper are alito requested to load rara lo their full rapacity, which I ' ,i ..... ttnt- lti niMrbi.il i-miuii'IIV They are aaked to order no more car than are alwolulely necenuiry, and to unload rura a promptly a poHlhln and notify the company at once when cara are relcaaod. The rullroiula are reiuetcd to place all rara without unneceaaary delay, to move all rar to deatlnatlon prompt ly and to keep rar In repair. WELISWILL OPPOSE OLCOn NEXT SPRING LIVELY CONTEST PROMISED FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR SECRETARYSHIP. SAl.KM. Ore., Aug. 1. X'nlea un fonteen reaaon arlae. Inurnce Com mlnloner Well will be a candidate uKaliiHt Secretary of State Olcott. next year, and with both strongly In trenched politically, and tho secretary xhlp the mnat Important office to be filled at the general election, the con tent promises to become the great po litical battle of tho Republican pri mary election. 1'oKnibly othnrs will Decome candl datea, hut It Is not believed that any candidate will bo available who will iwihkimi the oolltlcal atrcngth of cither, and that the fight will reduce Itself down to the two. Vr month CommlMKloner Wolls has linen conHldorliiK becoming a candi dal", but tho probability of John II. Coffey, county clerk of Multnomah rminiv enteritis the field delayed a final decision, the commissioner and hu friends rcnllzlnn that the entrance of tho two Into tho race would divide the vote antagonistic to Secretary Ol cott, and probably Insure his nomina tion. Coffey, however, recently ad vlsed friends that ho would not seek the orflee, and, after conferring; wllh friends several days bro, Wells Is said to have doclded to become a candi date. BY FLOOD Ofi o'clock said that tho water stood five feetln ninnv streets nnd buildings. A dlnpntch from Iirownsvlllo Bays a wireless report from Galvestlon an nounced that the storm had subsided, civlnc no other Information. Earlier wireless' received at Fort Sam Houston from! Gnlvesllon snhl no loss of life had been reported early today. Annrehnnslnn is felt for it Sante Fo passenger train which Is reported to have left Galvestlon at 6:30 yester day afternoon. No further word of It hns been received. All houses along the seawall were reported to have been desteroyed. In addition to Galvestlon, communi cation has been severed between the outside world and Houston, Beaumont, and all smaller cities and towns along the coast for many miles Inland. Many of the cosst towns had been aban doned by the Inhabitants. SHIPS AND DRY LAND ROCK ROADS ARE CALLEDWASTEBY E HEAD OF COUNTY COURT FINDS MACADAM HIGHWAYS ARE ONLY TEMPORARY. CHANCE IN ROAD POLICY OF - COUNTY IS TOLD BY JUDGE Bltumlnoua Macadam Will B Laid A Oth.r Typ'Wr Out II8O0 Equipment Bought to Lty and Oil Highway. The aolullon of the Clackamas coun ty road building problem I not In the construction of macadam or rock road. In the future the policy of the coun ty court will be to replace the Import ant worn-out rock and macadam roads with bltumlnoua macadam and the car rying out of till program ha already begun. Concrete 1 too expensive to lay and too expensive to nmlntatn for Clacka maa county and bltullthlc I too costly to construct These were the three most Import ant statement made by County Jndge Anderson Monday afternoon wlw-n he explained the plan of the county court , and hi personal view anu ciperiem c . In road matter. Ut year five mllea of bltumlnoua ) macadam wero laid and every hit of these highway. Jutlge Anaemon huh-.. hve stood the tct of heavy trafflc. The county court will avoid the mis take of laying this type of road In the winter In the future, he said, saving . . u ,1,. AvnorlnnrA nf the Mll- i me coiiiiij mo I waukle Portland road which wa left unfinished last fall and completed our- Ing the late spring. The Clackama. River and LaSalle road, sections of which were Improved .hi. i.ittiminnna macadam year ago. are all lmndlng up well, he aald. Much of the crlllclam of the people agnin this t)P of highway waa caused by mlsunderstnndlng. he believes. 1- r,,i,.rj thn count v court, at 111 uir ,m.... - - -. r... rmintv Juilie Anderson ! rnnrorned. will rebuild macadam roads Into bituminous macadam high tIia old read Is ecrapned. new rock applied w here necessary and then a two-Inch dressing of bltumlnum nnd crushed rock applied. This variety of highway can easily be repaired. Judge Anderson declared. ty simpiy nuiim on another coat of the material which not only repairs the road but actually makes It thicker and better. Macadam roads are only temporarj and tho best of that variety will wear out after only two or three years of use If the traffic Is heavy. Judge An derson declared. The road down the west side of the river, the Redland road and others settled this point be yond n doubt In the mind of the coun ty Judge. Tho county now owns, at a cost or $1800, equipment with which this new typo of highway can be built, free from the profit of the private contractor. This samo machinery, which consists it nnnltmicnt for actual ly forcing tho paving material Into the road, can he used in roau oiling. fm., miino of this road are now being built, half a mllo on the Clackamas and a mile nnd a half on the iteuinnn roau. in,, now nniilnment will bo tnKen 10 the Clncknmas road this week and the other rond will be ready for tho ma chinery within two weeks. vnvt mimmnr will nrobnuly see still more extensive work nlong this lino. Judge Anderson suggested thnt ft road of this kind Into Tortlnnd from Oregon City through C.rnys crossing mny oe lnld next yenr and rond from Pnrlow to tho Marlon county line Is another under consideration. One rond Into Portland hns been oiled by tho county and several of the districts have paid for oiling at their ovnnnan. Judce Anderson de clared thnt the Pncuic nignway irum Oregon City south to the county line will not bo oiled, owing to tho fnct that n largo pnrt of the road has recently been graveled. RECALL IN WHEELER COlTYJfflEATED PARTIAL RETURNS SHOW 116 FA VOR OUTING AND 551 OP POSE MOVE. FOSSIL, Ore.. Aug. 1G. The recall election held today In Wheeler coun tv Is nrovlnn decidedly unpopular, as up to a late hour tonight the returns from ten' precincts completed out of 13 give 116 votes In favor of the move to recall J. K. Starr, district attorney; and 551 against the move. The action of Thomas R. Kelly, a young man and newcomer, who was a candidate for the office 'n the elec tion, In atlempllng to withdraw follow ing the shooting affray at Mitchell, failed to have any efect on the voters, as there were open expressions of dis favor for the recall plan days before the election. JUDGE AND RS0I1 0. II- C. TOURNAMENT SET FOR LABOR DAY PORTLAND ANO OREGON CITY COMPANIES INVITED TO AT TEND CLACKAMAS MEET A big military lmniim-nl li pUnntd hy official of the Or-gi,u National (iuard for Ubor day. Monday. Septem ber 6, lo b hld ' ti e Clackamas rifle rang t Chvkan. station. All troop of the On ion National fiiurd qurtrd In M-iltnomah county, the Orxgoii Naval mllltl ml Company O. Thlrt Infanry, Ullonrd at Oregon City, will be eligible to participate. Committee have U n appointed un der th general rhalinisinlilp of Cap tain Oeorge !!. fichunm h-r. Third In fantry, O. N. !.. nd plnn are prac tically completed for a general pro gram extending over the entire day. Wllh 10 organlxallons In th field the morning will be devoted to field maneuver and problem In attack and offense, followed by Und concert by th Third Infantry and Coast artillery band. ' Colonel Clennard Mclxjiichlln of th Third Infantry, post commander of th Multnomah county armory, will be charge of the forenoon eventa. The noon day period will be given over to a basket lunch and picnic In the grov at the ran e. Jn the afternoon there will be a long military field proemm. Thl will Include a will callng contest, an equipment race between Individual, a romiictltlve drill between organlra tlona. a contest In shelter tent pitch in l,lnk cartridge rare between in dividual, a battery aectlon contest, a litter bearer' contest, mounted order ly equipment race, and the company JuO yard rifle matm. HADE IN SEPTEMBER PETITIONS MUST BE READY BY FIRST OF NEXT MONTH NEW AMENDMENT IS IN FORCE. M . 1 Changes In the boundaries of road dlstrleta In the eotmiy must be made ' the September term of the county court, according to an amendment C the law- as passed by the last legisla ture. Heretofore the changes have been made at any time of the year, but the new law says that they can;only be made once a year and only at the Sep tember term. As the term begins on the first day of the month, those who desire change In the road districts will have to get their petitions circu lated at once In order to present them In time. The smendment as passed by the legislature reads as follows: "Sec. 6.113. The county courts 01 the several counties of this state shall. ss often as they may deem necessury. but no oftener than once a year, mviue iiiir resnertlve counties or any part thereof, Into suitable road districts, each of w;hlrh shall he numbered, ana ..a,, hrl..f descrlntlon of the same to be entered upon the county records. Each county court, at tne bepiemner term thereof, 115, shall so arrange the rond districts of tho county as to con form to tho provision of this Bectlon, and at the September term of said court every year thereafter and at no other term make such changes In tho road districts of the county as may be deemed necesasry, provided, that nil road districts formed under the provisions of this, net shall be formed from contiguous territory." IS POPULAR! VALLEY TWO PEPPERMINT DISTILLERS ARE BUSILY ENGAGED IN WESTERN OREGON. That the growing of mint and rtiuinintinn of uoppermlnt oil la rap- Idly becoming an important industry twncriinnt thn Willamette valley is apparent. The Woodburn Independent says that Glenn Parr nas purcnaseu the old apple cider factory and Is in stalling It near his home, where he will start a -distillery to take enre of his peppermint crop. Mint nlnn Is being grown success ri.iiv in T.inn cnimty. aa will be seen hy the following from the Lebanon Cri terion: "The peppermint still at Knox Butte Is working on about fifteen acres of mint grown in that neighborhood this vear and is bringing out about 4S pounds of oil to the acre. The crop there is especially fine and much of it stands fully five feet in height. This io ilia aarnnri VP. IP that mint growing hns been tried In Linn county and for he most part the yield has been tuny up to the averafM yield In the older mint growing regions of the eastern states. A good sized Bample of the ell from this still has been sent to the Oregon exhibit at the San Francisco fair and will be placed among the prod ucts of Linn county now in that ex hibit. . "D. D. Allett has purchased the peppermint still formenly at West Stay ton of Alired Todd, and Is erectinr It on his place in tho northeast part of the city." CHANGES GROWING I LEO FRANK LYNCHED lffr - ATLANTA. Ga.. Aug. 17. Dangling at the end of a rope, clad only In a nlghtdres smeared with blood, and, with manacled hands, the body of Leo! M. Frank today swung from a tree on the outskirts of Marietta, the home of , Mary Phagan. the little factory girl, he wa alleged to have murdered. With thla horrible picture In mind and the thought of Franks widow. trtcKen, wtth grief, and horror, Atlanta turned! in revulsion from the terrible wont 01 a mob of 20 men. who dragged thej noted prisoner from the state farm at, Mlilcdgevllle last night F.vnn -hose who were bitter m their denunciation of former Governor Sla-, ton when he commuted Frank' death ; sentence to life Imprisonment cried for j aealnst the men who spir ited Frank away In an automobile aft-, er dragging htm by the heels from me, prison, and hanged him. criticism 01 the Mllledgeville prison officials Is, particularly bitter. .They permitted ; Eva-it to he carried away without 1 striking a blow and with scarcely a word In defense of their ward. 1 vhil An element of the citizens of. Georgia enoiinclng the lynching of. Frank and demanding that every OF NCHING LEAK OUT PRISONER SAID TO HAVE EVADED 1 JUESTION OF GUILT RE WARD OFFERED. ATLANTA, Ga.. Aug. IS. "Mr. Frank, we are going to do what the law said hang you by the neck until you are dead. Do you want to make a statement before we do?" This, it was reliably reported this afternoon, was the statement of the leader of the men who lynched Leo M. Frank yes terday, before the alleged murderer of Mary Phagan was hanged to a tree within two miles of the birthplace of the little factory worker. With It came ,iini throno-h hllnd channels that Frank was ill-treated by members of the lynching party en route from the Mllledgeville prison farm to the scene of his death.- In response to the question of wheth er he desired to nmke a statement be fore he was hanged, Frank is reported to have relied, "No." "We want to know whether you are guilty or Innocent of killing Mary Pha gan," is said to have been the next question put to Frank. The kidnapped prisoner did not re nu first, ncc.ordine to reports, and the leader of the lynchers repented the question. Frank is then reported 10 nave an-ou-ered! "I think more of my wife and mother than of my own life." Nothing more was then sain ana Frank was oulckly strung up and the r,h ritonersed. The prisoner was made as comfortable aa possible dur ing the trip from the prison farm, the reports this afternoon declared. The Journey was made in complete silence, so far as Frank was concerned. Governor Harris announced this aft ernoon that a reward would be of fered for the apprehension of the men ohn nnrilrlnnted In the Frank lynch ing. Postcards whlcn were maue, otDwing Frank dangling from the tree outside of Marietta, were barred from the mails today. Columbia State: But how can a na tion that has a Roosevelt be called un prepared for war? BY GEORGIA HOB RAHrVi means be taken to apprehend the men responsible for hi death, another rev- i . a atata'a rarnlval nf blood. I II VI . 1. " All morning long, following the dis covery of Frank body at 0 clocg. it dangled from the free to which be wa hsnvi.,1 Th wnrit anread and soon 11 mails teadinc to the scene were logged and made well nigh Impassable by the automobiles carrying cunosuy Minn, bent noon vtewlng the ghast ly spectacle.' By 11 o'clock It waa es timated 6000 person were gathered about the tree. The body could not be removed because the sheriff could not be found and the coroner said he had no authority to take charge of the rorpse. Frank' body was not cut down un til after a number of speeches had been made under the tree from which he was hanged. One man urged that the body be mutilated. Judge Mor ris, who was on the scene, opposed such an act, and urged that order be observed at all cost. The crowd then voted against mutilation of the body. It was lowered from the tree- and placed In a basket on a wagon, to he taken to Marietta, where the Inquest was to be held later. TWO LICENSES ISSUED. Two marriage licenses Issued Tues day by County Clerk Harrington are: Alice M. Carpenter to Carl Gray, of Molnlla, and Elma Devlin to James R. Spurgeon, of Oswego. ACTIVE INQUIRY INT B EG! BY PORTAND PAPER WHICH IS DEFEiAO BIG SLANDER SUIT Multnomah County District Attorney, Manag ing Editor of Portland News And Chief Counsel of Scripps League, Down From Seattle, Check Over Evidence In Famous Ardenwald Mystery With Local Men. Walter Evans, district attorney of Multnomah county; John B. Perry, chief counsel of the Scripps league of newspapers in the northwest, and J. W. Moriarty, manuging editor of the Portland News, spent the greater part of Tuesday afternoon in Oregon City studying the Hill murder case and gathering information which may be used when the t "5,000 slander suit of Nathan B. Harvey against the Port land paper goes to trial. Ex-Sheriff E. T. Mass was consulted and the evidence in the famous mur der case was carefully gone over. Dis trict Attorney Gilbert L. Hedges is not In the city. Sheriff Wilson and the party of Portland men discussed the case and one man was sent to see A. M. Kirchem, once foreman of the grand Jury. The Portland News has sent a num ber of men to Oregon City to get evi dence in the J75.000 suit. A week ago the records in the clerk's vault were carefully examined tn an unsuccessful effort to find the papers In the Mamie Walsh and the Charles Wilson in LOCKSINSPECTED INTEREST SHOVH BYCOIICRESSIH RIVERS AND HARBORS COMMIT TEE SPENOS BUSY HOUR AT FALLS OF WILLAMETTE. DELEGATION REARS NECESSITY OF JVQ FOR TOOTS Ntd of Dtpr Lor Chamber I C plind by Federal Englnctr Party Escorted Through Mill Many Qution Akd. - Thtrlvf rs and harbor committee of congress pent only an hour here Wed nesday, but In that brief time the del- gallon Inspected the lock, were shown the urgent need of deeper lock cham ber and visited th Crown Wlllametle paper milt. The rnncressmen arrived In Oregon CUt at 1 o'clock on a piaJ car over the Portland Railway. Light A Power company and a few minute arter o'clock were on their way back to the Rom City. Tbey were met at Seventh street by a number of automobile fur- nlihad hv member of the commercial club and taken aero the suspension bridge to the government property on the west side of the river. Tho fvonnitnirtlon of the lock, now under way. wa thoroughly explained by federal army engineer ana con gressman Hawley' uggetlon that $53,000 additional be appropriated to inr th inck chambers wa dis cussed. Colonel Thompson showed the congressmen that the channel 01 me Willamette river wa tit feet deep from Portland to a point 20 mllea muh nf thl cltv while the lower lock- chamber wa only about two feet deep. The deepening of the Iock cnamDera not flmred In when the appropria tions for the work now being done were made o that the lock win re main at their present depth nnles ad ditional money Is appropriated. The congressmen were Interested In the) matter and asked many questions. After the visit to th locks, the party went through the papers mills. There, tnn tholr Interest was aroused as they saw the paper coining from the big machine at hundreds of feet a minute. Thev returned from the mills to thw special car In automobiles and left about 3 o'clock for Portland. Since July 10 the party has been on the steady lump, hauled from one end of California to the other, and not until Wednesday when the party waa In Portland did the surviving 16 mem bers of the original party take a deter mined Btand for rest and stopping. Senators Chamberlain and Lane met the congressmen at Crescent City and accompanied them to Portland; Rep resentative Hawley joining the party at Salem, and Representative McAr thur welcomed them at Portland. The party consists of S. M. Spark man, of Florida, chairman of the house rivers and harbor committee; C. L. Sparkman, his son and private secre tary; R. M. Switzer, of Ohio, wife and (Continued onvPage 4.) quests and the probate papers In the estate of Nathan B. Harvey's brother and mother were examined. Mamie Walsh was killed in MaylSD2, while picking blackberries near her home and Wilson was arrested for the crime. He is alleged to have con fessed and a few days before the time when he was to have been sentenced banged himself in the county jail. E. C. Hackett, at present chief deputy sheriff, was a deputy then and cut down the body of Wilson. The ac cused man is said to have been a close friend of Harvey. What new evidence the Portland News has been able to secure will probably not be produced until the case comes up for trial. Sheriff Wilson spent a large part of the afternoon with District Attorney Evans. When asked why the Mult nomah county district attorney wa with the two newspaper men and at work on the case, the sheriff replied that District Attorney Evan merely desired to study the evidence In the murder case. 0 MILL TILIRDER IS