Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, June 19, 1907, Page 6, Image 6

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THE MOBSEfG OKEGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19. 1907.
RESIGNS AFTER
40 YEARS' SERVICE
Professor J. W. Marsh Gives
Up Active Work at Pa
cific University.
HELD CHAIR OF CLASSICS
Honored by Associate Alumni, Who
Present Distinguished Pioneer
Educator With Rare Books
at the Annual Meeting.
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY. Forest Grove,
Or., June 18. (Special.) After 60 years'
active work as an educator. Profes
sor Joseph Marsh this afternoon sub
mitted to the board of trustees his resig
nation from the chair of ancient . lan
guages In Pacific University. In point
Of service, Professor Marsh is the oldest
teacher on the Pacific Coast, having
pent 40 consecutive years in the position
which he has now given up. Although
be is in his 71st year, his resignation
came as a surprise to all and it was ac
cepted with regret by the trustees of the
institution.
Not only at the meeting of the board
this afternoon but also at the session of
the Associate Alumni tonight the resig
nation of Professor Marsh was the chief
topic . discussed. Tonight he was pre
sented with three rare books by H. W.
Scott, representing the alumni, and the
speeches of the occasion were in praise
of hlB service to Pacific.
Although he will do no more teaching.
Professor Marsh will not sever his con
nection with the Institution he has served
so lone; and so faithfully. He was elect
ed professor emeritus by the trustees and
will remain in charge of the college li
brary which has been built up to a valu
able collection of more than 14.000 vol
umes largely through his efforts. He
also has been plaoed on the Carnegie
educational fund for retired professors,
with $1000 a year.
With the college song the Associate
Alumni begin their exercises in Brigh
ton chapel tonlprht. The occasion was
given over entirely to the honor of
Professor Marsh and his long service at
Pacific.
Milton W. Smith. 1878. of Portland
and a trustee, paid a glowing tribute
to Professor Marsh. He spoke of Pro
fessor Marsh as a kind, good and loving
friend; a man of lasting influence; a
Christian and a faithful teacher. John
A. Lee. 1891. said that the test of
character is the Influence that It sheds
abroad In the world. He rot only
praised .Professor Marsh for his un
surpassed scholarship but alno for the
deep Interest he took In every student.
Professor Joseph Klrkwood of Syra
. cuse University and an alumnus of
Pacific, spoke with great earnestness
of the noble character of this grand old
man. He dwelt upon the zeal with
which he always entered Into his work.
H. W. Scott began his address by
referring to the early days of Pacific
University as they were recalled by
him, the first graduate of the institu
tion. Mr Scott spoke of the great
work and Influence that Professor
Marsh had rendered to the world by
his work. In kindly words of praise
he presented to Professor Marsh three
very rare books procured from England
by the Associate Alumni.
One of the books was the "BlBhop's
Bible." Its title page bears a portrait
of Queen Elizabeth and was printed In
1568 during her relsrn. Another book
was the "Dewey Bible," printed in
France in 1S09. It takes its name from
- the place where it was published in
France. The "Bishop's Bible" is con
sidered one of the rarest books in
existence. The books are in a Btate of
Fine preservation.
After Mn. Scott had closed his ad
dress. -Professor Marsh thanked his
many friends and especially alumni and
students for the kindness they had
shown him.
Professor Marsh was bom in Burling
ton, Vt., In 1836. His father James Marsh
was professor of philosophy in the Uni
versity of "Vermont at that place. His
mother was the granddaughter of Presi
dent Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth
College.
In 1S57 Professor Marsh was graduated
at the University of Vermont and dur
ing the next ten years taught In Wiscon
sin and Canada.- and in 1839 he spent a
year at Union Theological Seminary. In
1K67 he came to Forest Grove as profes
sor of Greek and Latin in Pacific Univer
sity which position he has held for the
last 40 years. During his long service at
Pacific University he has won an estab
lished position as one of the most promi
nent educators of the Northwest. He is
loved and honored by every student that
has come under his kind influence. In
spite of his advanced age his Intellect is
as keen as in the prime of life.
Professor Marsh is a thorough scholar.
He can converse In seven languages, be
ing especially proficient in Greek and
Latin. He is the author of an English
grammar which is taught in the univer
sity. He holds the degrees of A. B., Uni
versity of Vermont, 1857 and A. M. in
18i: A. M. at Bishop's College, Canada,
and Ph. D. at Pacific University In 1SS3.
State Engineer under instructions ' from
the State Land Board.
SIGX RECLAMATION' CONTRACT
Heschutes Company Must Complete
System in Four Years.
SALEM. Or., June 18. (Special.) The
State Land Board and the Deschutes Ir
rigation & Power Company yesterday
signed the new reclamation contract cov
ering future work on the Pilot Butte De
velopment Company and Oregon Irriga
tion Company segregations, aggregating
about 100.000 acres. The new contract,
briefly summarised, requires the reclama
tion system to be completed in four
years from date. The amount of the
Hen -on unsold land is Increased from 10
to 125 an acre, on an average, but the
annual water charge is reduced from SI
to -SO cents an acre. The contract pro
vides that at tire expiration of ten years
from date the company must turn -the
system to a Water Users' Association if
one should be organlxed and demand such
action.
Hereafter the reclamation work is to
be done by districts and whenever any
district has been supplied with- water
the State Land Board will apply to the
Government for a patent and then throw
the land open for sale to settlers. "No
sales can be made until the board has
given authority. Settlers are required to
cultivate at least one-eighth of their
land within three years after purchase.
The quantity of water to be furnished Is
18 acre-feet during the Irrigation sea
son of 90 days. This means sufficient
water to cover the land to a depth of
18 feet.
Sales that have been made heretofore
are In no way affected by the new con
tract with the Deschutes Irrigation &
Power Company though the holders of
present contracts can make an additional
payment If they desire and come under
the new regulations. The new contract
was draws by the Attorney-General and
AGES WOMAX STRCCK BY CAR
Mrs. Hart Run Down Before She
Hears Warning.
OREGON CITY. Or.. June 18 (Special.)
Mrs. Hart, of Mllwaukie Heights, was
struck by a passenger car of the Oregon
Water Power & Railway Company this
morning while crossing ie track near
her home. She is an old lady and did not
hear the car approaching. Motorman
Kleinsmith saw Mrs. Hart and gave the
alarm, but she did not leave the track
and was struck, though the car was go
ing at a slow rate of speed and went only
five feet after striking the woman.
Mrs. Hart was carried to her home and
was later taken to St. Vincent's Hospital,
at Portland. It is not believed that her
Injuries will result fatally.
MESSAGE SEN'T 1600 MILES
Long Distance Wireless Dispatch Is
Received at North Head.
SEATTLE, Wash., June. 1. (Spe
cial.) Three wireless telegraph mes
sages from the steamship President
were received this morning. Captain
Weaver sent a message to the com
pany stating that the vessel would
arrive in port Friday morning. The
message read:
"Steamship President, 1300 miles off
OUT OF PATIENCE
WITH RAILROADS
Commissioners Declare Serv
ice on Southern Pacific
Must Be Improved.
REMEDIES ARE DISCUSSED
That Fare Should Be Reduced it
There Is No Improvement Is
the Opinion of Commis
sioner West.
SALEM, Or., June 18. (Special.) That
the people of Oregon have suffered too
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Flattery. 10 P. M., June 17. Will be in
Seattle Friday morning. All well."
The message was picked up by the
government station at North Head,
Wash., and forwarded to Seattle. A
North Head is about S00 miles from
Cape Flattery, the distance that the
message was sent was about 1600
miles.
CHIEF HAS OFFICER ARRESTED
Aberdeen Patrolman Fined tor En
gaging In Saloon Brawl.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. June 18. (Spe
cial.) An unusual occurrence in police
circles today was the arrest of Officer
Martin on a warrant sworn out by
Chief Schneider Martin was found
guilty of assault, fined $25 and costs
and dismissed from the force. Martin
while off duty engaged in a row in a
saloon and assaulted a man named
John McGary. who was fined an equal
amount. Chief Schneider has had con
siderable trouble in getting good men
for the force, but says he is deter
mined to improve the service.
COMES TO FIGHT FOR IiAVD
Attorney Townsend to Lead Fight on
Southern Pacific.
8ALEM. Or., June 18. (Special.) Con
gressman W. C. Hawley received a tele-
long from an Inadequate and uncertain
railroad service is the plainly expressed
opinion of the members of the Oregon
Railroad Commission. While they have
nothing to say at present as to the local
train question on the O. R. & N., which
question is still pending, they are out
spoken as to conditions in general and
have no hesitancy in saying that there
must "be a change and that without de
lay. At least one member of the Com
mission is determined that the railroads
must give better service or reduce the
passenger rates.
With conditions on the Southern Paci
fic the Commission is perfectly familiar,
for the members ride every day or two
on the trains that pass through the val
ley on the way to . Portland from San
Francisoo. They know as well as all the
traveling public that the afternoon pas
senger . from San Francisco haa hardly
ever been on time in the last six months,
and very frequently it has been sevtil
hours late, with no reliable informa. .n,
provided showing when the trains would
arrive. That the train might occasion
ally be late without the fault of the com
pany, they are willing to admit; but they
are positive in the assertion that there
can be no good excuse for having trains
several hours late every day.
Should Put on Special.
"We are near the end of a long line,
both north and west,", said Mr. Aitchl
son of the Commission tonight. "If
trains from San Francisco or the Mis
souri' River suffer any delays anywhere
along the line, we get the effect of it
been made, and order that when a regu
lar train is an hour behind schedule time,
a 4 tub train shall be put on at Rose
burg or Ashland to be run on the time
of the regular train. This will give the
people the service to which they are en
titled." Commissioner Campbell took a similar
view. Commissioner West is a little more
aggressive in his views as to remedies,
and while the subject was under discus
sion tonight he made it plain that he be
lieves in taking measures that will bring
the railroads to time.
' Suggests Lower Fare.
"Passengers should pay what the serv
ice is reasonably worth." said Mr. West.
"The kind of service we are getting now
is not worth the 3 cents a mile charged
by the company. If we must endure slow
and Irregular service we should get it at
2Vi cents a mile. The people ought to pay
only for what they get, and if they do
not get a 3-cent service they should not
pay a 3-cent rate."
While Mr. West also believes in
the idea of requiring a stub train to take
the place of delayed trains, he believes in
compelling the roads to run through
trains on time. He declares that the
train leaving San Francisco in the morn
ing should get into Portland before 6
o'clock the next evening, instead of af
ter 7 o'clock, as now scheduled. The com
mission has set next Monday at 1:30 P.
M. as- the time for completing the hear
ing on the question of a local train from
Pendleton to Portland. The meeting Mon
day will be held in Portland.
AFTER STANDARD OIL BATES
Movement to Force Reduction on
Certain Commodities. .
SALEM, Or.. June 18. (Special.)
The Oregon Railroad Commission is
about to make trouble for the Stand
ard Oil Company in this part of the
country. Today a complaint was pre
pared by the Commission and forward
ed to the Interstate Commerce Corn-
mission complaining of the freight"
rate on denatured alcohol, and asking
the Commission to establish a' new and
much lower rate. The Oregon Com
mission will press the case with vigor,
in the hope of securing a lower rate
on fuel alcohol, and if this is secured
it will mean a lower rate on gasoline
with which the alcohol comes Into
competition.
The Oregon Commission has taken
up this fight on its own initiative. The
Commission has taken this matter up
in the interest not only of Oregon con
sumers, but of all Coast purchasers,
for the reduction of rates is asked for
from Chicago and MIssourl-Rlver
points to all Coast terminals. The
complaint names as defendants all the
railroads doing business between Chi
cago and the Coast. Aside from the
formal portions of the complaint, it
alleges in brief:
That defendants by their tariff
schedules now maintain for the trans
portation of alcohol of all kinds, in
cluding denatured alcohol In' wooden
barrels or Iron drums, a rate of 85
cents per 100 pfunds in carloads and
$1.25 per 100 pounds in less than car
loads from Chicago and said Missouri
River common points to said North
Pacific Coast terminals Including Port
land. Astoria, Albina and other points
in the State of Oregon that such rate
as applied on denatured alcohol is un
reasonable and unjust, both generally
and relatively, in consideration of the
transportation service performed, and
unduly prejudicial to dealers and ship
pers of denatured alcohol at Oregon
points, and to their traffic in said com
modity, i
That there is no Just reason why de
natured alcohol should be put im the
same class and recorded the same rate
as proof alcohol; that denatured alcohol,
.because it is cheaper in price and is
used for entirely different ' purposes
than said proof alcohol, should take a
lower rate than proof alcohol; that
denatured alcohol, owing to recent en
couragement and development, can be
manufactured quite cheaply and ' is
being more largely used daily as a
necessity for fuel and other purposes;
that no internal revenue tax Is levied
on denatured .alcohol whereas -proof
alcohol is so taxed to the extent of $2
per gallon.
That denatured alcohol is used as a
household article for fuel and other
external purposes, ; whereas proof
alcohol is used mainly in medicinal and
other beverage preparations intended
for internal application. That at said
unreasonable carload 85-cent rate and
less than carload $1.25 rate denatured
alcohol is compelled to pay about 12
cents a gallon carload and 18 cents per
gallon less than carload for such trans
portation to said Oregon points. That
such charge also works unjust dis
crimination against the traffic in de
natured alcohol and should be changed.
OREGON WILL HAVE BUILDING
Decision of Commission to Alaska
Yukon Exposition.
SALEM, June 18. (Special.) The
Oregon Commission to the Alaska-Yukon
Exposition, to be held In Seattle
in 1909, has organized by electing W.
H. Wrehrung, president; E. W. Rowe,
vice-president; M. D. Wilson, secre
tary; Elizabeth O'Keane, assistant sec
retary; E. N. Rowe, J. D. Booth and W.
T. Wright, executive committee.
The commission has taken no fur
ther action except to determine that
an Oregon building will be erected at
the Expoeition. Active wori will be
gin next September, when arrange
ments will be made for the growing of
crops for the Oregon exhibit. The
law authorizing the appointment of
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CARRIE E.
gram this evening from Attorney D. B.
Townsend. of Fargo, N. r., saying that
he will be in Portland tomorrow momWig.
Mr. Townsend is the attorney selected by
Attornej-Qeneral Bonaparte to prosecute
the case against the Oregon & California
Railroad Company and its assignees to
compel the sale of the grant lands which
it received from the Government upon
condition that the land should be old
to actual settlers In tracts of not to ex
ceed IS acres. i
Local Option Case Fails.
EUGENE. Or, June It. (Special.)
Today in the case of the State Vs. W.
Waddle and Jack Morris, indicted for
violation of the local option law, both
defendants were acquitted
here in Oregon. There are many oppor
tunities for delays and we must expec'
that the through trains will suffer soim T
mishaps somewhere on the journey. But
the people of the Willamette Valley
shou! not bear all the Inconvenience
that results. The railroad company
should get trains through on something
near schedule time, and if a regular train
can't be kept on time, a special train
should be put on to be run on the time
of the regular. That seems to us to be the
solution of the situation. The Commis
sion is In possession of all the informa
tion that is needed regarding train serv
ice in the Willamette Valley. I think we
shall proceed upon our own initiative as
well as upon the complaints that have
the commission permits the secretary
and executive commissioner to be
placed on salary, but this will not be
done until September.
Attempts Suicide Three Times.
MYRTLE POINT. Or., June 18. (Spe
cial.) George Fowler, a logger on the
Lower Coquille, who had been injured in
a logging accident, made three unsuccess
ful attempts to end his life at Bandon
this week. First he jumped from the
wharf and, recovering his self-possession,
swam ashore. Later' he drank a bottle
of arnica, and finally slashed at his
throat and the artery on his wrist with
a sharp knife. He is recovering.
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SEATTLE PROPERTIES ARE ES
TIMATED AT $48,300,000.
Realty Men Encouraged by Rail
roads to Make High Valuation'
as a Basis for Rates.
S BATTLE, Wash.. June 18. (Special.)
The testimony before the Railroad
Commission today of a special board
named to fix the valuation of Seattle
railroad terminals was that this prop
erty is now worth $48,332,787.12. A
special commission, including Will H.
Parry, James T. Blackstone and F. W.
West, had been appointed by the Rail
road Commission to appraise local rail
road terminal values and the testimony
of their findings taken here today, will
be the railroad commission's own de
termination of real estate values.
The total fixed by the three realty
experts includes the value of all rail
road property here. Railroad attor
neys showed an anxiety in today's
hearing to ret the value of the prop
erty fixed at as high a figure as pos
sible, for the Commission intends to
use the total valuation of railroad
property within this state as a basts
for fixing rates for both passenger and
freight traffic
that if the Council grants the franchise
a $1000 check will be put up as a forfeit
contingent on the completion and opera
tion of the road within a year, and that
actual building will begin Inside of 60
days.
Mr. Weeks says that he now has steel
sufficient to build a mile of road, and that
steel for six miles more can be secured.
In time for use here. The announcement
made Saturday in Seattle by Mr. Wyman,
of Boston, as to the intentions of the
newly organized International Traction
Company, to build a line from the British
Columbia boundary to Chehalls, Is be
lieved to have hastened Mr. Weeks' ac
tivity here at this time.
A new invention has been Introduced In
Newcastle. England, by which It Is feared
th lamplighters or the city will lose, their
vocation. A German Inventor has placed a
machine at the local gas works which will
enable the gas company to light and ex
tlngTilsh all the street lamps simultaneously.
STILL- WANTS TO BTJILD ROAD
Centralia-Chehalls Company Re
news Application for Franchise.
CHEHALI9, Wash., June 18. (Special.)
The Centralla-Chehalis Electric Railway
& Power Company, which some moths
ago applied for an interurban franchise
for a line between Chehalls and Centralla,
renewed its application at last iilght s
Council meeting. B. J. Weeks, of Tacoma,
appeared for the company. He declared
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