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13 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1903. DEFICIT PROBABLE ILF GENERA i Fire Committee of Executive Board Declines to Buy New Apparatus. WARNED BY THE MAYOR ward of Contracts for $25,000 Worth of Equipment Postponed, Pending Decision of Council. Revenues Fail Off. So great is the danger of a big deficit in the general fund of the city that Mayor Lane yesterday afternoon advised the . Are committee of the Executive Board to postpone the award of bids for $25,000 Worth of apparatus for the Fire Depart ment until the matter can be placed be fore the Council, probably at a special session, to be held next week. In view oT the circumstances, the members of the committee so voted. The bids will be held open until action is taken by the Council. Conditions, as set forth by Mayor Lane, placed the fire committee members in an embarrassing situation, as the call for bids was responded to by several firms, and one man came clear from Boston to be present in person at the time of award ing the contracts. Another was here from Seattle. It now remains to be seen whether or not the bids will ever be ac cepted, the whole matter being one for the Council to determine. It seems doubt ful at this time., because af the financial situation, and it would not be at all sur prising if the Council decides to leave the appropriation as it stands. It this is done. It will mean that none of the fire apparatus can be purchased, as the ordinance, carrying the amounts, specifies in each instance the sum to be expended for each piece of apparatus. In all but two Items, the bids exceed by a small margin, the appropriations. Xow Up to Council. The action of the fire committee, which is composed of Mayor Iane, as ex-ofticio chairman; Marcus A. Fleischner. Richard "Wilson and I T. Peery, refers the mat ter back to the Council, with a review of the situation, as outlined yesterday after noon by Mayor Lane. Then if the Coun cilmen see lit to amend the appropriation ordinance, so that its aggregate amount may be applied in the purchase of 'the fire apparatus for which bids have been opened, the Executive Board will proceed, it is said, to award the contracts. In defining his position to the members of the fire committee and to the rep resentatives of fire apparatus manufac turers. Mayor Lane explained that, as citizens, realizing the danger tit con fronts the municipality, it was his duty to protect the Council by giving the mem bers due notice of the facts, as possessed by him. He declared that any deficit must be made up out of the private purses of the Oouncilmen. and said that, while some of the members had fought him, he nevertheless felt that he must over look this and do his duty by them as a citizen and as an ofnciul. Causes or the Deficit. Three unexpected incidents have com bined to create the present condition, ex plained the Mayor. The O. R. & N. Com pany has refused to pay taxes assessed against it to the extent of J73.O0O, and has tiled suit to enjoin collection of tha amount. Should the city eventually win, the sum will not. in all probability, be come available this year. The referendum was applied to the vehicle tax ordinance, or at least was sought to be applied, and the matter Is tied u: in the Circuit Court. This cuts olT about $15,000 that ' was counted on. Then there is the matter of the local option campaign, being waged on the East Side, which, if successful, is said to be sure to wipe out revenue to the extent of approximately $25,000. These three matters combined, it was shown, create a serious condition and Mayor Lane declared that something must be done to make certain payment of the city's obligations. Protect City Council. In order that the members of the City Council may have all of the facts, and be placed in a position to protect themselves, the fire committee members voted to hold open the bids until such time as. the Council may meet and take action. The only awards recommended to the Executive Board by the fire committee yesterday were for two combination chemical and hose wagons, which will cost the city $1800 each. These will be furnished by A. G. Long, a local dealer. The apparatus for which bids were asked consists of four second-size engines two third-size engines, besides the wagons for which the contracts were let. SPOUSE SOUNDLY WHIPPED Jealous Husband, Wlio Objects to Wife's Kscort, Is Worsted. L. D. Carmack, manager of the Dia mond Ice Company, had far better have suppressed his jealous emotions -when he saw his wife, Mrs. Harriet C. Carmack, on the street with another man. Thurs day night. Jealousy getting the better of him, he attacked his wife and her escort with stones, knocked the escort down, had a tussle with his wife, and then suffered a sound thrashing from the aforesaid escort who recovered from the Initial blow delivered by Carmack in sufficient time to be revenged. Added to that. Carmack is in the toils charged with threatening to kill his wife. In the heat of the fracas, he is said to have assured the woman that but one thing prevented him from taking her life, the lack of a suitable and sufficient weapon. She took that as a threat against her life, consulted Deputy Dis trict Attorney John Stevenson and the ar rest of the husband followed. The name of the escort involved is not yet revealed. He is said to be a younger man than the husband and even a hand somer one. It is said he was felled by a rock thrown by Carmack but shortly arose and gave an excellent account of himself. Mrs. Carmack likewise wedged in a few blows on her spouse and her knuckles showed the result yesterday. The case will be heard in the Police Court. RESTORE EXCURSION RATE Commercial Culbs Want Low Pare to Seaside Resorts. An effort is to be made by all the com mercial clubs In Eastern "Washington, Idaho and Oregon, Including the local commercial club, to secure a restoration of the low excursion rate from interior points to the seaside resorts on the Ore gon and Washington coast, which has not been in effect for several seasons. Among the reasons given for the reduc- railroads and a great convenience to the people of the Inland Empire and other in terior points: that the natural Increase In the volume of travel, warrants the re duction for the Summer season. The rate requested is about one fare for the round trip, with stop-over privileges at Portland. Resolutions have been adopted by a number of- the commercial bodies at In terior points and they have interested other organizations all along through the territory affected. The Board of Gov ernors of the Portland Commercial Club, at its last meeting, unanimously indorsed the resolutions of the Walla Walla Com mercial Club, fully covering the details of the situation. CONSOLIDATION" IS COMPLETE Portland Railway, Light & Power Co. Takes Over Properties. Subsidiary companies to the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company have been taken over by the big electric cor poration and that concern now operates every mile of streetcar track formerly owned by the Portland Railway Com pany and the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company. These two companies have formally transferred their proper ties to the merger company. The same thing. has been done by the Portland General Electric Company, so that now the P. R. L. & P. Co. is the holder of all electrical properties of every kind within the city, with the exception of the independent trolley lines Just being built. The corporation controls traction, lighting and electrical power. The final steps In accomplishing for mally the "consolidation of the Individual companies began some time ago were taken yesterday when stock holders and directors of the Port land Railway Company met at the head quarters building. First and Alder streets, and formally approved the transfer of the streetcar company to the big corporation. Deeds of transfer for the property have already been filed and the formal sanc tion of the officials of the Portland Rail way, now that the other details have been settled, was all that was needed to bring about the actual transfer. The O. W. P. lines were the first to be taken over by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, and the Port land General Electric Company came into the fold a few days ago. The meetings yesterday complete the consolidations. The old companies will be known no more in the operation of the properties, al though the organizations will be maintained. ELECTRIC ROAD STOPS WORK Mount Hood Company Awaits Out come of Pending Land Cases. Trouble over right-of-way has stopped operations on the Mount Hood Railway & Power Company's line, under construc tion between Portland and Bull Run, near the base of Mount Hood. Work was halted yesterday morning, when 80 la borers were laid off indefinitely. No promise could be given when grading and track-laying operations will be resumed. Everything depends upon the securing of right-of-way in the neighborhood of Gresham. " 1 The rails of the new line have' been laid up to a fence near Gresham. The fence encloses a disputed piece of right-of-way and there are four other similar tracts adjoining, all of which are in volved in suits brought by the Mount Hood company to condemn. There is one other piece of right-of-way in the town of Gresham which must be secured by legal process. The railroad could, un questionably, secure a franchise along a Gresham street, but the company pre fers to buy its own right-of-way instead. "I cannot tell when these land mat ters will be settled." said General Man ager Miller, of the Mount Hood company, yesterday. "We have taken our men off the work, housed our machinery and covered our. steam shovels. The track Is laid just as far as it can be until wa secure more right-of-way and we ex pect' to accomplish this as soon as the courts act. However, the courts are busy now and I do not expect to get these matters adjusted until June. "Work on the power plant is going ahead slowly. We need sand for making concrete and we are waiting until It can be hauled in after the rails are laid on the road. We received 25 new gravel cars today that will be used in grading the line." NO DAMAGE TO YOUNG WHEAT Recent Frost Was Not Severe in Eastern Oregon. A. A. Morse, special representative of the freight department of the Harriman lines, has Just, returned from a trip over the Shaniko and Condon branches of the O. R. & N. and says that reports of damage to growing wheat by frost in hat territory are unfounded. He found wheat in excellent condition throughout the territory visited and says there will be a crop this season that will equal the large one of last year. The crop is all in and rain is needed. ' However, several weeks will elapse before the lack of rain will work any damage. Mr. iMorse says that in the territory tributary to the two feeder lines he traveled over, there is about 10 per cent increase in the barley acreage, with a proportionate falling oft In Winter wheat, leaving the total grain acreage about the same as last season. River Service Is Curtailed. The O. R. & X. will operate a tri-weekly boat service between Riparia and Lewis ton on the Snake River, commencing at once. The former daily service will be discontinued, because of the opening of the new Riparia cutolT. Boats Will leave Riparia Mondays. Wednesdays and Fri days and will leave Lewiston Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. W. E. Conian Goes to Chicago. W. E. Coman, assistant general freight agent for the Harriman lines', left Port land last night for Chicago, where he goes to attend a meeting of the Trans continental Freight Association. There Is a long docket awaiting the meeting of the freight men and it is not expected that Mr. Coman will return to Portland for one month. Canadian Officials Here. . B. W. Greer, general freight agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway, at Van couver, B. C, accompanied by W. B. Lanigan. assistant freight traffic mana ger for the Canadian Pacific's Western lines, with offices at Winnipeg, Man., spent yesterday in Portland, looking into traffic conditions In this territory;. STOCK SALES END Fine Cattle Are Disposed Of on Closing Day. COMPETITION IS BRISK Twenty-one Head of Shorthorns and Herefords Sold at Auction for Average Price of $151 Each. an Low Rates to Chicago. Extremely low rates to Chicago and other Eastern points on sale May. 4 via Chicago & North-western Line. For full ' information apply R. V. Holder, uen'i Agt., lo3 Third St. . ' ' It Reached the Spot. Mr. E. Humphrey, who owns a large general store at Omega, O.. and is pres ident of the Adams County Telephone Co., as well as of the Home Telephone Co.. of Pike County. O., says of Dr. Kings New Discovery: it saved my me once. At least i tninx it am. It seemed to reach the spot the verv seat of my cough. when everything .1.. ;i n.l " T L-ln.-a M A nr T U . . .. n o t only reaches the, cough spot; It heals the sore spots " and the weak spots in throat, lungs and chest. Sold under guarantee at Woodard, Clarke & Co.' drugstore. ' '60c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. The livestock sale conducted by the Portland Horse Sale Company for the past four days closed yesterday with the auctioning oft of 21 head of fine Short horns and Herefords. The average price paid was $154 a head. This was the first attempt of the sales company to sell blooded cattle and Its success only goes a step farther to prove Portland to be one of the coming centers of the fine stock industry. During the four days of the sale over $50,000 was paid for fine horses and cattle. Buyers from all over the Northwest attended and every pur chaser from outside the city who came here to buy a thoroughbred horse or other animal found what he wanted and was willing to pay fancy prices for what he got. There was a surprisingly large crowd on hand at the Union Stockyards yester day morning and the moment the sales were opened the bidding was sharp and spirited. C. C. Colt, president of the Union Stockyards and representative of the Swift Company,' was one of the early bidders. Ida. a blue ribbon Here ford, caught his eye and she was finally knocked down to him for $120. G. W. Warren, of Warrenton, bid $S! for Star Weno. the prize-winning Short horn bull at the State Fair last year. The sales follow: . Shorthorns. Conxlgned by W. O. Minor: MaRgie Hillsdale, red. calved Novem ber . 1002. A. L. Brown. Haines. Or. $110 Mary Ann. roan, calved February 14, 11108, Portland Union Stock Yards 155 Grandella. red, calved November 15. 1005. George Chandler. Baker City.. 100 MagKie Jane, red. calved July 29. 1900 George W. Warren. Warrenton. Or.... 70 Melroee. red and white, calved Febru ary 6. 1007. A. I. Brown 100 Star Wano, red bull, calvsd November 1, 1006. G. W. Warren 300 Herefords. Consigned by A. R. Morgan: British March, calved January 6, 1904. C. Mlnsinger. city 300 Imp Flash, calved March 23, 1S9S. J. O. Storey. Rugene 1-0 Imp British Beauty, calved January 12, JSH8. George -Chandler. Baker City.. 12o Ida. calved January 17, 1905, J. C. Calt, citv 120 Pride of Wa-co II. calved March 19. 1H02, A. J. Warnock 105 Roaine Alamo, calved March 19, 1902, Johnson & Weir. Oorvallls 150 Imp Queen Ideal, calved November 14, 1!00. A. J. Warnock. Norton, Or. . ., . 105 Imp Topsy. calved February 25, 1S98, J, O. Storev - British Queen, calved July 30, 1908, Jnhnsnn A Weir 140 Nora, calved July 11. 1907. C. Mlnsinger., 105 Ruby, calved July 11, loots, ti. n. tiau. Mount Vernon. Wash 100 Ruth, calved July 29, 190", C. Mlnsinger, lty 100 Topsmar (hull, calved November 17. 1903. A. J. warnecK "" Consigned by the Willamette Valley Land & Livestock Company: Owhl (bull), calved January 20, 1903, W. K. Taylor. Corvallls 125 Lewis (bull), calved July 13, 1906, Sam Cochran, St. John." Or 145 BISHOP DEFINES DUTIES Declares Ministers Should Never ' Engage in Business. The remarks of Bishop Wil6on Thomas Hogue, who Is presiding oyer the annual free Metnoaist comerence in session at the First Church, East Mill and Ninth streets, ilumine even the dullest routine of the proceedings. His short talks are looked forward to with great interest. He had over 19 years of hard work on the circuit, and knows all about the hard ships the ordinary field worker encounters. Yesterday morning he made some incisive remarks on the duties of ministers. "A minister." he .declared, "ought never to use his title of minister for business purposes, and he ought never to divide up his work. By no means should he become a real estate man, an Insurance agent or a peddler. Bishop Fowler, of the Meth odist Church, said In a recent sermon that he had found many backslidden Methodist ministers who had become In surance agents, real estate men, and sold stock in some wildcat company. The bishop then said to his audience, 'You butchers and grocers, beware of these men. Bishop Hogue also remarked on the tendency of the members of the church to move, that they had the migratory fever, and that It was the duty of the pastors to urge the necessity of fixed places of abode. His remarks were ad dressed to the conference, as he was re ceiving Henry E. Kreider and J. L. Smith into the conference as elders, it having been announced they had completed the course of study. E. M. Walter was ad mitted on trial to the conference. E. M. Hillis was continued on trial. It was decided to invite C. W. Stamp to come into the Oregon conference and work in special meetings. Mr. Stamp is under the Jurisdiction of the Home Mis sion Board. R. H. Dollarhide was trans ferred from the Louisiana to the Oregon Conference. J. H. Hopper, of the Colo rado Conference, was elected an honorary member. J.. H. Brown was elected to the Home Mission work. J. O. Hockett was' given supernumerary relations. Rev. F. J. Kester. of the Clinton Kelly Methodist Church, was given an honorary seat in the conference. Yesterday afternoon the Women's Missionary Society held a busi ness session.! The ministerial stationing committee is' holding daily sessions, and may submit a report tonight. THE LAST DAY AT 20c Stock Advances to 50c per Share Monday, lay 4th NORTHWESTERN EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT CO. Buy now and get in at rock bottom price 2 Oc per share Our stock is being taken up with surprising rapidity. The millionaire, the merchant, the doctor, the lawyer, the mechanic, are all buying it. Why not you? And do it now. We want to hear the hum of the wheels of our mill within -a few months, then the shipping of our lumber, and then the income. Will you be one of the lucky ones to share in the profits? $100 invested now will give you a life income. . I can positively convince you that there is no better investment on the present market than the one here offered. Think of it!" Four billion feet of high-priced, hardwood, merchantable timber, located on the Coast, accessible and easily logged, on good, wide, tidewater rivers. The market for every foot of this vast tract is already established, and the profits will be enor mous. Ten million feet per year can be sold in the immediate vicinity of our plant. This one market guarantees a net profit of 30 per cent on the entire investment, and represents but a small propor tion of our output. - This large tract of timber is located on the Pacific Coast, where we have the best shipping facili ties to any port in the world available. ' The'timber consists principally of the highest-priced wpods used in the manufacture of pianos, hotel fixtures, shipbuilding, railroad and electric cars, house and office trimmings, furniture, and many other indispensable wood commodities. The woods comprise MAHOGANY, LIGNUM VITAE, EBONY, CEDAR, ROSEWOOD, OAK, RUBBER, BALSAM, COPOEBA, C0C0B0LA. The net price of this valuable tract of timber is less than 20d PER THOUSAND FEET, and most of it finds a ready market at prices ranging from $100 to $400 per thousand. , , The LIGNUM VITAE is in great demand, and marketable at more than $1000 per thousand feet. The Board of Directors of the Northwestern Exploration & Development Co., which controls this timber, has authorized me to sell a limited number of shares of its stock at 20 per share (par value $1.00), for the purpose of installing a plant of sufficient size to meet the demands of the market. I have on exhibition at my office samples of wood (highly polished), cut from this tract; also cruisers' reports and other data, which will convince at once the most skeptical of the wonderful money-making resources of this enterprise. Call or write and secure subscription blanks. Do not delay, or you may miss the opportunity of a lifetime. x GEO. W. DOUGLA 318 Worcester Building PORTLAND, OREGON HOLD ANNUAL EXHIBITION Multnomah Women's Annex Mem bers Do Stunts. The annual gymnasium exhibition of the women's annex of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club held yesterday af ternoon In the Multnomah gymnasium brought out a large attendance. Tire ex ercises were under the direction of Pro fessor Robert Krohn and consisted in artistic and intricate marching, fancy dancing, dumb-bell, parallel bar and va rious calisthenics. One of the prettiest features of the long and varied programme was the fig ure marching or 12 of the young women, attired in picturesque fencing costumes.. This march terminated with a clever fencing combat between Miss Prances Jeffery, the president of the women's annex, and Mrs. G. Hoffman, with honors even. As an effective finale eight girls in white costumes and an equal number In red. the club colors, executed a difficult drill, finishing in the form of the Multnomah wing, the girls in red costumes forming the M and the remain-" der composing the white wings. Following is the programme: Selections, Parsons' orchestra; march ing and calisthenics; two-step combina tion; slipper game; parallel bars: dumb bell drill: grace dance; table vaulting, junior annex and women; recitation, Julia Cole; medicine ball race; fencing: flying rings; hornpipe, junior annex; winged M ballet. Hanan snoes at Rosenthal's. TWO FINANCIERS IN FIGHT Louis J. Wilde Administers Rebuke to C. A. Block. Louis J. Wilde paid his respects to his old friend. C. A. Block, yesterday with a right swing to the cheek delivered with high velocity and considerable accuracy. It was' the only blow struck, for Block did not seem inclined to fight. , Besides, a large assemblage of unsportsmanlike pedestrians interfered and prevented what might have been rather a classy fistic event ' had Wilde insisted. The fight, or rather the blow, occurred in front of a barber shop near Washing ton street on Sixth street. Wilde was coming out of the shop as Block ap proached. Block -had a walking stick in his hand. He raised it, unconsciouslv perhaps, but Wilde thought it was a hostile move and waded In. .He closed on Block and got In a stinging blow. They clinched, the Instantly-formed crowd closed in and the affray was at an end. A policeman stepped up but since Block walked away. Wilde was not arrested. Block went direct to the office of Dis trict Attorney Manning where he told of the trouble. But Instead of issuing a warrant of arrest, Mr. Manning advised peace and Block went away satisfied, allowing the Incident to drop. There has been bad feeling between the two men for many months because of business deals In which they had- conflicting In terests, each accusing the other of unfair manipulations. Sunrar and salt will bnth preserve meat, bec&upe they absorb tha moteture in it. and so itrevert decom position. CITY LIGHTS STILL BURN Josselyn Says People Must Xot Suf fer for Mayor's fault.' "Just because Portland has an obstrep erous Mayor is no reason why the people of the city should suffer by having the street lights turned off."- declared Presi dent Josselyn, of the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company, last night. "Our company will not leave the city In darkness for-any such reason," he added. May 1 was the date when It was hinted that the street lights would be turned off unless the city renewed Its contract with the company. Mayor Lane opposed the efforts of theCouncll to renew the old contract and the clash between the Mayor and President Josselyn that prom ised to plunge the city into darkness was due last night. However, consideration for the people of the city, he says, kept President. Josselyn from taking the rash step threatened. """ " tion are that it has been profitable to theJL gprlng style tianaa saoes at Rose nthal's, J (Tans! Tans! Tans! at Bonthal'. Reed French Piano Mfg. Co. Sixth and Burnslde Sts., Pianos, Play ers and Player Pianos. "Frora Maker to Player." tar t l and get at the bottom Read It Before You Eat It n7 n A ' of this WB
